Sixu Yan | 鄒思旭

Hi, I am Sixu, a first-year Ph.D. student at the HUST Vision Lab (HUSTVL), Artificial Intelligence Institute, School of EIC, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), advised by Prof. Xinggang Wang. Prior to that, I received my M.S. degree from the School of ME at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where I conducted research in the Robot Control and Machine Vision Lab (RCMVL) at the Institute of Robotics, under the supervision of Prof. Han Ding and Prof. Zhenhua Xiong.

My research goal is to develop general-purpose cognitive robots. Currently, I focus on scaling up robotic dexterous manipulation through large-scale synthetic data generation and sim-to-real transfer. My prior work includes motion planning and imitation learning. During my Ph.D., I have been fortunate to collaborate closely with Dr. Hangxin Liu, Dr. Zeyu Zhang, and Prof. Song-Chun Zhu from the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI).

β€œStay curious. Stay humble. Keep building.”

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News

  • [2025/05] πŸŽ‰ M3Bench gets accepted to RA-L 2025!
  • [2025/04] πŸŽ‰ DiffusionDrive is awarded as CVPR 2025 Highlight!
  • [2025/03] πŸŽ‰ M2Diffuser gets accepted to T-PAMI 2025!
  • [2025/02] πŸŽ‰ DiffusionDrive gets accepted to CVPR 2025!

  • Research

    My research interest is broadly in Robotics and Computer Vision, with a particular focus on generalizable perception and dexterous manipulation in complex environments. My long-term goal is to develop general-purpose cognitive robot systems that can robustly perceive and interact with the real world. Representative works from my Ph.D. research are highlighted below. For a complete list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.


    M3Bench: Benchmarking Whole-body Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation in 3D Scenes

    Zeyu Zhang*, Sixu Yan*, Muzhi Han, Zaijin Wang, Xinggang Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Hangxin Liu
    (*equal contribution)
    Paper / arXiv / Project / YouTube / BiliBili / Bibtex
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025

    We propose M3Bench, a large-scale benchmark and data generation toolkit for evaluating whole-body motion generation in mobile manipulation. It includes over 30,000 pick-and-place tasks across 119 realistic 3D scenes, with expert trajectories generated by VKC planner. Our benchmark supports assessing generalization to novel scenes and objects, and reveals that existing methods struggle with whole-body coordination under task and environmental constraints.

    M2Diffuser: Diffusion-based Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulation in 3D Scenes
    Sixu Yan, Zeyu Zhang, Muzhi Han, Zaijin Wang, Qi Xie, Zhitian Li, Zhehan Li, Hangxin Liu, Xinggang Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
    Paper / arXiv / Project / Code / YouTube / BiliBili / Bibtex
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI) 2025

    We propose M2Diffuser (Mobile Manipulation Diffuser), a conditional diffusion-based neural motion planner capable of generating full-body coordinated trajectories that satisfy both physical and task constraints. This approach provides a unified framework for motion generation and trajectory optimization in 3D scenes and enables seamless transfer from simulation to real-world robotic platforms.

    DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
    Bencheng Liao, Shaoyu Chen, Haoran Yin, Bo Jiang, Cheng Wang, Sixu Yan, Xinbang Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Ying Zhang, Qian Zhang, Xinggang Wang
    Paper / arXiv / Project / Code / Hugging Face / Bibtex
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025, Highlight

    We propose DiffusionDrive, a truncated diffusion-based planner for real-time end-to-end autonomous driving. By injecting multi-mode anchors and reducing the denoising steps to two, it achieves fast inference while maintaining high-quality trajectory prediction. DiffusionDrive outperforms prior methods on the NAVSIM benchmark in both planning accuracy and diversity.


    Education and Experience
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
    2024.09 - Present
    Ph.D. Student at HUST Vision Lab (HUSTVL)
    Research Advisor: Prof. Xinggang Wang
    Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)
    2023.07 - 2024.08
    Research Intern at Robotics Lab
    Research Advisor: Dr. Hangxin Liu, Dr. Zeyu Zhang
    Academic Advisor: Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
    2021.09 - 2024.06
    Master Student at Robot Control and Machine Vision Lab (RCMVL)
    Research Advisor: Prof. Zhenhua Xiong
    Academic Advisor: Prof. Han Ding
    Ocean University of China (OUC)
    2017.09 - 2021.06
    Undergraduate Student
    GPA ranking (Application Season GPA): 1/62
    Research Advisor: Prof. Xiaojie Tian

    Services

  • Reviewer: The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
  • Reviewer: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024)
  • Reviewer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)

  • Selected Awards and Honors

  • 2023: First-class Comprehensive Academic Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2022: First-class Comprehensive Academic Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2021: National Scholarship (Highest Honor for undergraduates in China)
  • 2021: First-class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Ocean University of China
  • 2021: Outstanding Individual of the 10th Role Model Program, College of Engineering, OUC
  • 2021: Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award, Ocean University of China
  • 2019: First-class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Ocean University of China
  • 2019: Scholarship for Social Practice, Ocean University of China
  • 2018: First-class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Ocean University of China
  • 2018: Scholarship for Technological Innovation, Ocean University of China
  • 2019: First Prize, 13th National College Student Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Competition
  • 2019: Honorable Mention (Second Prize), Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
  • 2019: Second Prize, 10th National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition
  • 2019: First Prize, 9th Shandong Undergraduate Mathematics Competition
  • 2019: First Prize, 2nd Shandong Undergraduate Physics Competition

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