Hui Zhang

张辉

I am currently a PhD student at PDZ, ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Mirko Meboldt, and an associated PhD student at ETH AI Center.

My research interests lie in physics-based hand-object interaction, dexterous robotic hand manipulation, and their applications in daily life and industry. I am specifically interested in building robust, generalizable, and highly agile low-level dexterous manipulation skills that are reusable and can serve as the foundation for various manipulation tasks.

Education & Experience

2023 – Present

PhD Student

PDZ & AI Center, ETH Zurich

Supervised by Prof. Mirko Meboldt

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)

2019 – 2020

Research Intern

Langer Lab, MIT

Undergraduate thesis project

2016 – 2020

BSc in Automation (Robotics Track)

Zhejiang University

News

2026.09 Three papers accepted by CoRL 2026!

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

UniCross: Unified Cross-Skill Dexterous Manipulation Synthesis

A unified framework for various dexterous skills and their long-horizon composition.

Hui Zhang, Julian Ferchow, Jie Song, Mirko Meboldt

arXiv preprint, 2026

Paper Project Page Code (Soon)

Assembling Two Parts in One Hand

Grasp, coordinate, and assemble two parts entirely within one hand.

Liuao Pei, Tianyue Wu, Hui Zhang, Ping Luo, Jie Song

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

Paper Project Page

HiFun: a Hierarchical Framework for Efficient Functional Dexterous Manipulation Learning

Efficient and effective real-world RL for functional dexterous manipulation.

Linyi Huang, Guowei Huai, Weibin Liu, Shulong Jiang, Ping Tan, Weixuan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Jie Song

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Generalist tactile policy trained on data of 3000h & 21 sensors, transferable to new sensors.

Chengbo Yuan*, Zicheng Zhang*, Mingjie Zhou*, Wendi Chen, Yi Wang, Zhuoyang Liu, Dantong Niu, Shuo Wang, Hui Zhang, Wenkang Zhang, Yingdong Hu, Yuanqing Gong, Wanli Xing, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu, Kaifeng Zhang, Yang Gao

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

Paper Project Page Code Model Dataset