Kai Lu

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford Robotics Institute (2026 - present), working with Prof. Ioannis Havoutis. I received my Ph.D. degree (2020 - 2025) in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Andrew Markham and advised by Prof. Niki Trigoni FREng. Prior to this, I received my B.E. degree (2016 - 2020) with outstanding graduate honor in Automation from Tsinghua University, where I was a student research assistant at the Department of Computer Science, advised by Prof. Huaping Liu. I was a visiting student at Duke and UIUC (2019), advised by Prof. Kris Hauser.

My research focuses on Embodied AI and Robotics, with two main aspects: first, generalizable/ transferable/ dynamic robot skill learning (thesis); and second, LLM/ VLM/ VLA for multi-modal learning (latest works).

Research Interests:
     ⋅   Robotics - Robotic Manipulation, Mobile Manipulators, Human-Robot Interaction
     ⋅   Machine Learning - Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
     ⋅   Multi-Modality - Robotic 3D Vision, Tactile Sensing, VLM/VLA for Embodied Agents

Collaboration / Research Intern:
     ⋅   Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Meta Research (FAIR, Habitat Team)
     ⋅   Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), vLAR at Hong Kong PolyU (vLAR)

Sevice:
     ⋅    Associate Editor (AE): International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
     ⋅    Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RA-L, ICLR, ICMR, BMVC, ICCV, ACM Computing Surveys

Resume     Github     Google Scholar     LinkedIn    

Email: kailu AT robots.ox.ac.uk / lukaiwork01 AT gmail.com