Haozhi Qi

Email: haozhi AT uchicago.edu
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I am a Research Scientist at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) and an incoming Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UChicago. My research lies at the intersection of robot learning, computer vision, and tactile sensing. My Ph.D. thesis focused on Multisensory Dexterity for Robotics.
I received my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where I worked with Prof. Yi Ma and Prof. Jitendra Malik. I received my Bachelor's degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where I was advised by Prof. Chi-Keung Tang. I also spent two years at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), working on computer vision with Dr. Jifeng Dai and Dr. Yichen Wei.

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Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills from Imperfect Simulations
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Tech Report, Dec 2025
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OSMO: Open-Source Tactile Glove for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer
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Tech Report, Dec 2025
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Dexterity from Smart Lenses: Multi-Fingered Robot Manipulation with In-the-Wild Human Demonstrations
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Tech Report, Nov 2025
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SPIDER: Scalable Physics-Informed Dexterous Retargeting
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Tech Report, Nov 2025
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From Simple to Complex Skills: The Case of In-Hand Object Reorientation
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International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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Learning Visuotactile Skills with Two Multifingered Hands
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International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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Learning In-Hand Translation Using Tactile Skin With Shear and Normal Force Sensing
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International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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Hand-Object Interaction Pretraining from Videos
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International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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Lessons from Learning to Spin “Pens”
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
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Twisting Lids Off with Two Hands
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
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Neural feels with Neural Fields: Visuo-tactile Perception for In-Hand Manipulation
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Science Robotics, Nov 2024 (Journal Cover)
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Digitizing Touch with an Artificial Multimodal Fingertip
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Tech Report, Nov 2024
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General In-Hand Object Rotation with Vision and Touch
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023
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Perceiving Extrinsic Contacts from Touch Improves Learning Insertion Policies
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Tech Report, Sep 2023
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In-Hand Object Rotation via Rapid Motor Adaptation
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
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Outstanding Demo Award at NeurIPS 2023 Robot Learning Workshop
Coupling Vision and Proprioception for Navigation of Legged Robots
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
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ReduNet: A White-box Deep Network from the Principle of Maximizing Rate Reduction
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Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), accepted in 2022
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Learning Long-term Visual Dynamics with Region Proposal Interaction Networks
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
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Deep Isometric Learning for Visual Recognition
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
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NeurVPS: Neural Vanishing Point Scanning via Conic Convolution
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Neural Information Processing System (NIPS), 2019
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Learning to Reconstruct 3D Manhattan Wireframes from a Single Image
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International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 (Oral, 4.3% acceptance rate)
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End-to-End Wireframe Parsing
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International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
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Deformable Convolutional Networks
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International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 (Oral, 2.1% acceptance rate)
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Fully Convolutional Instance-aware Semantic Segmentation
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017 (Spotlight, 8.0% acceptance rate)
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I highly value open-source and reproducible research. I aim to open-source all of my project code; the current progress is 22 / 24 (91.7%). In addition, my CV template is open-sourced here, and its design is inspired by this. This website is also open-sourced here. Its design is inspired by this and this, with a few adapted elements.
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