Lawrence Yunzhou Zhu

MSCS student @ Georgia Tech

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Me working on multi-modal egocentric hand pose data collection, 2023

I am a Thesis Track MSCS student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, supervised by Dr. Danfei Xu, researching mobile and dexterous egocentric imitation learning. My research interests lie in egocentric computer vision, fine-grained 3D spatial interfaces, and imitation learning.

Before coming to Georgia Tech, I graduated from The University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in BSc Computer Science. I conducted my undergraduate research on a transformer-based egocentric thermal hand pose estimator and constructed the first multispectral, multiview hand action dataset at MAPS Lab, supervised by Prof. Chris Lu.

news

Sep 9, 2025 🌟 Introducing EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data. Our demo on X has already reached 60k views — check it out here!
May 22, 2025 Our team finished runner-up in the Table Service track at the 1st What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) Competition at ICRA 2025! 🎉 Georgia Tech covered it in this news post .
Feb 25, 2025 ThermoHands is accepcted to ACM SenSys 2025 🎉🎉🎉. See you in Irvine!

selected publications

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    EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data
    Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya, and 5 more authors
    Under Review, 2025
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    ThermoHands: A Benchmark for 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Egocentric Thermal Image
    Yunzhou Zhu, Fangqiang Ding, Xiangyu Wen, and 2 more authors
    In ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2025