Hui Zhang

张 辉

I am currently a PhD student at PDZ, ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Mirko Meboldt and Prof. Jie Song.

My research interests lie in physics-based hand-object interaction, dexterous robotic hand manipulation, and their applications in daily life and industry.

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Education & Experience

2023 – Present

PhD Student

PDZ, ETH Zurich

Supervised by Prof. Mirko Meboldt and Prof. Jie Song

2022 – 2023

Research Assistant

AIT Lab, ETH Zurich

Supervised by Prof. Otmar Hilliges

2022

Research Intern

Perceiving Systems Lab, Max Planck Institute

Supervised by Prof. Michael Black

2020 – 2023

MSc Robotics, Systems & Control

ETH Zurich

Thesis at Robotic Systems Lab (Prof. Marco Hutter); Semester project at Computational Robotics Lab (Prof. Stelian Coros)

2016 – 2020

BSc

Zhejiang University

Thesis completed at Langer Lab, MIT

News

2026.06 Co-organizing ICRA 2026 Workshop on Manipulation Robustness.
2025.11 Invited talk at Sharpa Robotics.
2025.09 RobustDexGrasp accepted at CoRL 2025 as Spotlight Presentation!
2025.09 FunGrasp accepted at RA-L and IROS 2025, and received Best Poster Award at 2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation at CoRL.
2025.05 Invited talk at 3D Vision Workshop.
2024.07 GraspXL accepted at ECCV 2024!
2024.01 ArtiGrasp accepted at 3DV 2024 as Spotlight Presentation!

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution

RobustDexGrasp: Robust Dexterous Grasping of General Objects

A robust framework for dexterous grasping that achieves 95%+ success rate on 500+ real-world objects.

Hui Zhang*, Zijian Wu*, Linyi Huang, Sammy Christen, Jie Song

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025, Spotlight Presentation

FunGrasp: Functional Grasping for Diverse Dexterous Hands

Enabling functional grasping across diverse dexterous hand morphologies from a single image.

Linyi Huang*, Hui Zhang*, Zijian Wu, Sammy Christen, Jie Song

Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation at CoRL, Best Poster Award, 2025

GraspXL: Generating Grasping Motions for Diverse Objects at Scale

A scalable approach to generating diverse grasping motions for a large variety of objects.

Hui Zhang, Sammy Christen, Zicong Fan, Otmar Hilliges, Jie Song

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

ArtiGrasp: Physically Plausible Synthesis of Bi-Manual Dexterous Grasping and Articulation

Synthesizing physically plausible bi-manual dexterous grasping and articulation motions.

Hui Zhang*, Sammy Christen*, Zicong Fan, Luocheng Zheng, Jemin Hwangbo, Jie Song, Otmar Hilliges

International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024, Spotlight Presentation

Dexterous Manipulation Workshop at RSS, 2024

Invited Talks

November 05, 2025
May 10, 2025

Miao Li's Group

Wuhan University

February 27, 2025

LinS Lab

Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS)

September 16, 2024

Tsinghua Embodied AI Lab (TEA Lab)

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University

Academic Service

Workshop Organizer

2026

ICRA 2026 Workshop on Manipulation Robustnes

Reviewer

2026

ECCV2026

2025

RA-L, 3DV2026, ICRA2026, CVPR2026

2024

Autonomous Robots, RA-L, 3DV2025