Lulu Zhao

Human–AI Interaction · Design · Embodied Intelligence

Lulu Zhao beneath snow-covered trees in winter
snow keeps the quiet
Lulu Zhao by the sea on a bright summer day
sunlight answers back

Making intelligence
tangible.

I’m Lulu Zhao (赵璐璐), a Robotics PhD student in Cornell Computer Science, exploring human–AI interaction and AI as a material for design in embodied intelligence.

curiosity,
made physical

Research

Journey

Places that shaped the work.

  1. 2025–Present

    Cornell University

    PhD student in Robotics · Computer Science

    Cornell Fellowship · 2025
  2. 2021-25

    Beijing Normal University

    Bachelor of Engineering · Artificial Intelligence

  3. 2024

    Carnegie Mellon University

    Summer research at the Robotics Institute

  4. 2024–25

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Exchange at New Asia College

Selected research

Technical paths that brought me here.

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Robot learning · Deformable objects

Manipulating Elasto-Plastic Objects

A 3D occupancy-based predictive control framework for complex deformable objects.

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Humanoid robotics · Generative video

MoveBot

Distilling contact-rich humanoid skills from generative video into loco-manipulation policies.

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Diffusion models · LLMs

AnchorIT

A training-free approach to composed image retrieval through visual editing and semantic reasoning.

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Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and research outputs.

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About

The path from poetry and PPE to HAI and embodied intelligence.

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