Leiyao Cui

(he/him)

SIA Robot Vision Group

About

Leiyao Cui received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2024. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), where he began in 2024, and a research intern at Peking University (PKU). He is co-advised by Prof. Yixin Zhu (PKU) and Prof. Zhi Han (UCAS).

Interests

3D Vision Robotic Perception Robot Manipulation

Recent Publications

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Vi-TacMan: Articulated Object Manipulation via Vision and Touch

Leiyao Cui

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, Zihang Zhao

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Corresponding author

, Sirui Xie

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, Wenhuan Zhang

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, Zhi Han, Yixin Zhu

Corresponding author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06339 (2025)

arxiv page code dataset

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DrivAerStar: An Industrial-Grade CFD Dataset for Vehicle Aerodynamic Optimization

Jiyan Qiu, Lyulin Kuang, Guan Wang, Yichen Xu, Leiyao Cui, Shaotong Fu, Yixin Zhu

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, Ruihua Zhang

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Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (2025)

arxiv openreview page code dataset

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B*: Efficient and Optimal Base Placement for Fixed-Base Manipulators

Zihang Zhao

Equal contributor

, Leiyao Cui

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, Sirui Xie

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, Saiyao Zhang, Zhi Han, Lecheng Ruan, Yixin Zhu

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2025)

arxiv ieee page code

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TacMan-Turbo: Proactive Tactile Control for Robust and Efficient Articulated Object Manipulation

Zihang Zhao

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, Zhenghao Qi

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, Yuyang Li, Leiyao Cui, Zhi Han

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, Lecheng Ruan

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, Yixin Zhu

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arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02204 (2025)

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Afford-X: Generalizable and Slim Affordance Reasoning for Task-oriented Manipulation

Xiaomeng Zhu

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, Yuyang Li

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, Leiyao Cui, Pengfei Li, Huan-Ang Gao, Yixin Zhu

Corresponding author

, Hao Zhao

Corresponding author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03556 (2025)

arxiv page code dataset