Pokuang Zhou

Second-year Ph.D. student in Robotics at Purdue University, advised by Professor Yu She.

Previously earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, advised by Academician Han Ding and Prof. Huan Zhao.

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Research

Research during PhD stage. Research focuses on multimodal robot learning, robotic in-hand manipulation, embodied AI and control theory.

* indicates equal contribution.

	ManiFeel: Benchmarking and Understanding Visuotactile Manipulation Policy Learning Quan Khanh Luu, Pokuang Zhou, Zhengtong Xu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Qiang Qiu, Yu She arXiv, 2025, New England Manipulation Symposium (Oral)* project page / arXiv Base on Issac Gym bulid a opensource platfrom. ManiFeel is a reproducible and scalable simulation benchmark for studying supervised visuotactile policy learning.
	In-Hand Singulation, Scooping, and Cable Untangling with a 5-Dof Tactile-Reactive Gripper Yuhao Zhou, Pokuang Zhou, Shaoxiong Wang, Yu She ADRR, 2025 (Cover Feature) project page / paper In-Hand Singulation, Scooping, and Cable Untangling with a 5-Dof Tactile-Reactive Gripper
	Safe Human-Robot Collaboration With Risk Tunable Control Barrier Functions Vipul K Sharma, Pokuang Zhou, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She, S Sivaranjani T-MECH and AIM, 2025 (Best Student Paper Nomination)* video / paper Safe Human-Robot Collaboration With Risk Tunable Control Barrier Functions
	DartBot: Overhand Throwing of Deformable Objects with Tactile Sensing and Reinforcement Learning Shoaib Aslam, Krish Kumar,Pokuang Zhou, Hongyu Yu, Michael Wang, Yu She T-ASE and CASE*, 2025 video / paper DartBot: Overhand Throwing of Deformable Objects with Tactile Sensing and Reinforcement Learning
	Stick Roller: Precise In-hand Stick Rolling with a Sample-Efficient Tactile Model Yipai Du, Pokuang Zhou, Michael Yu Wang, Wenzhao Lian, Yu She IROS, 2024 video / paper Stick Roller: Precise In-hand Stick Rolling with a Sample-Efficient Tactile Model
	In-Hand Singulation and Scooping Manipulation with a 5 DOF Tactile Gripper Yuhao Zhou, Pokuang Zhou, Shaoxiong Wang, Yu She IROS, 2024 project page / paper In-Hand Singulation, Scooping, and Cable Untangling with a 5-Dof Tactile-Reactive Gripper
	Robotic System with Tactile-Enabled High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging Device for Autonomous Corn Leaf Phenotyping in Controlled Environments Xuan Li, Ziling Chen, Raghava Sai Uppuluri, Pokuang Zhou, Tianzhang Zhao, Darrell Zachary Good, Yu She, Jian Jin SSRN, 2024 video / paper Robotic System with Tactile-Enabled High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging Device for Autonomous Corn Leaf Phenotyping in Controlled Environments

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Teaching

IE 474-Industrial Control Systems, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2023 and Fall 2025

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