Lawrence Yunzhou Zhu

CS PhD student @ School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

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

I am a CS PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Sehoon Ha and Danfei Xu. My research focuses on leveraging egocentric human data for robot mobile manipulation. I also received my MS in Computer Science (thesis track) from Georgia Tech in 2026.

Before coming to Georgia Tech, I received a BSc in Computer Science with First-Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh. As an undergraduate researcher at MAPS Lab, supervised by Prof. Chris Lu, I built ThermoHands, the first multispectral, multiview benchmark for egocentric hand pose estimation, and developed a transformer-based hand pose estimator for egocentric thermal images.

news

Aug 15, 2026 I started my PhD at Georgia Tech.
Jun 4, 2026 EMMA has been featured as an Oral Presentation at ICRA 2026 in Vienna 🎉🎉🎉
Dec 12, 2025 EMMA has been accepted to RA-L 🎉! Check out our overview post on X here.

selected publications

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    EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data
    Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Dhruv Patel, Simar Kareer, Sehoon Ha, and Danfei Xu
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026
    Oral Presentation at ICRA 2026 (top ~7.7% of accepted papers)
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    ThermoHands: A Benchmark for 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Egocentric Thermal Images
    Yunzhou Zhu, Fangqiang Ding, Xiangyu Wen, Gaowen Liu, and Chris Xiaoxuan Lu
    In ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2025

professional service

2026 Reviewer: CoRL 2026, RA-L 2026, ICRA 2027
2025 Reviewer: CoRL 2025, CoRL 2025 H2R Workshop
2024 Reviewer: IROS 2025, ACM SenSys 2024, TMECH 2024