Haoran Hao

郝浩然

Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Email: hrhao@cmu.edu
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About Me

*NEW* I am a first-year Master's in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Jeff Schneider.
I obtained my bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Nanjing University. Previously, I had the privilege of working with Dr. Zhi Hou at Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Prof. Xiangyu Yue at MMLab@The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Prof. Yu-Feng Li at Nanjing University.
I am open to discussions or collaboration opportunities. If you are interested in my work, feel free to reach out via email.

Research Interest

My research interests mainly include Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Specifically, I am interested in Machine Learning, Multimodal Perception and Robotic Manipulation. I am passionate about developing intelligent systems with capabilities across multiple dimensions.

  • Machine Learning: Enhancing the performance and data efficiency of machine learning methods for Robotics.
  • Multimodal Perception: Enabling robots to perceive and understand environments through multimodal information.
  • Robotics: Developing an intelligent system with perception, reasoning, and interaction capabilities to solve real-world tasks.

News

  • [2025.2] I have been admitted to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University!🎉🎓
  • [2025.2] RAP is accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • [2024.11] ABIL is accepted by KDD 2025.
  • [2024.10] Awarded BYD Scholarship (Ranked 2/102 in my grade).
  • [2024.6] I'm glad to participate in LAMDA & RIKEN-AIP Joint Workshop on Machine Learning.
  • [2024.5] Give an oral presentation at Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments Workshop at PAKDD 2024. [Slides]
  • [2023.12] Awarded National Scholarship (Ranked 1/102 in my grade).

Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)
VLASER
Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning
Preprint, Under review
Ganlin Yang*, Tianyi Zhang*, Haoran Hao*, Weiyun Wang, Weijie Su, Wengang Zhou,
Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Jiangmiao Pang, Gen Luo, Wenhai Wang, Yao Mu, Zhi Hou

Paper | Project | Code

OC-VLA
Grounding Actions in Camera Space: Observation-Centric Vision-Language-Action Policy
Preprint, Under review
Tianyi Zhang*, Haonan Duan*, Haoran Hao, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Zhi Hou
Paper

TDC
Multimodal Long Video Modeling Based on Temporal Dynamic Context
Preprint, Under review
Haoran Hao*, Jiaming Han*, Yiyuan Zhang, Xiangyu Yue
Paper | Project | Code

TDC
RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Personalization for Multimodal Large Language Models
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
Haoran Hao*, Jiaming Han*, Changsheng Li, Yufeng Li, Xiangyu Yue
Paper | Project | Code

TDC
Learning for Long-Horizon Planning via Neuro-Symbolic Abductive Imitation
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025
Jiejing Shao*, Haoran Hao*, Xiaowen Yang, Yufeng Li
Paper | Project | Code

Experiences

 
 
 
 
M.S. in Robotics (MSR)
Carnegie Mellon University
2025.08 - Present
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern at MMLab
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2024.03 - 2025.06
 
 
 
 
B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence
Nanjing University
2021.09 - 2025.06, Average Score(Overall): 92.0/100
Conference Reviewer:
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, 2026
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025
  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025
  • Honors & Awards

    • Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University, 2025
    • Zheng Gang Overseas Study Scholarship, 2024
    • BYD Scholarship, 2024
    • National Scholarship (the highest honor for Chinese students), 2023
    • Nanjing University Scholarship, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • School of Artificial Intelligence Scholarship, 2023
    • Outstanding Student of Nanjing University, 2023, 2024
    • Outstanding Freshman of Nanjing University, 2022

    Miscellanea

    • I'm an amateur photographer 📷, and I regularly share my photos on Unsplash.