Zhenyu Zhao

zzhao767@usc.edu

I’m a senior at the University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. Yue Wang. I work on general-purpose intelligence for humanoid robots.

News

I'm actively looking for PhD and research opportunities in 2026, feel free to reach out!

Humanoid Everyday accepted to ICRA 2026!

Publications

* denotes equal contribution · † denotes corresponding author(s)
  1. Ψ₀: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Ψ₀: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Songlin Wei*, Hongyi Jing*, Boqian Li*, Zhenyu Zhao*, Jiageng Mao, Zhenhao Ni, Sicheng He, Jie Liu, Xiawei Liu, Kaidi Kang, Sheng Zang, Marco Pavone, Di Huang, Yue Wang†

    arXiv preprint

  2. Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation

    Zhenyu Zhao*, Hongyi Jing*, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang†

    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026

  3. Can LLMs Grasp Implicit Cultural Values? Benchmarking LLMs' Cultural Intelligence with CQ-Bench

    Can LLMs Grasp Implicit Cultural Values? Benchmarking LLMs' Cultural Intelligence with CQ-Bench

    Ziyi Liu, Priyanka Dey, Jen-tse Huang, Zhenyu Zhao, Bowen Jiang, Rahul Gupta, Yang Liu, Yao Du, Jieyu Zhao

    arXiv preprint