Haonan Duan

Haonan Duan

Robotics Learner

I am a senior researcher at SenseTime Research. My primary research interests lie in Multimodal Large Language Models, Embodied AI, and Robot Learning, with a specific focus on designing foundational models for robotic perception and manipulation.

I received my Ph.D. from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2024. My research primarily focused on robot dexterous grasping and human-robot interaction.

πŸ”₯ News

  • 2025.11: One paper got accepted by AAAI 2026.
  • 2025.06: One paper got accepted by ICCV 2025.
  • 2024.11: One paper got accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
  • 2024.06: One paper got accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
  • 2024.05: Finished my Ph.D. final defense! What an unforgettable journey!
  • 2024.01: One paper got accepted by ICRA 2024.
  • 2023.01: Started internship at NIO Autonomous Driving.

πŸ“ Publications

Please visit my Google Scholar page for full publications.

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Grounding Actions in Camera Space: Observation-Centric Vision-Language-Action Policy

Tianyi Zhang*, Haonan Duan*, Haoran Hao, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Zhi Hou

AAAI, 2026

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Dita: Scaling Diffusion Transformer for Generalist Vision-Language-Action Policy

Zhi Hou*, Tianyi Zhang*, Yuwen Xiong, Haonan Duan, Hengjun Pu, Ronglei Tong, Chengyang Zhao, Xizhou Zhu, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Yuntao Chen

ICCV, 2025

Project / Paper / Bilibili / YouTube / ηŸ₯乎

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Reactive Human-to-Robot Dexterous Handovers for Anthropomorphic Hand

Haonan Duan, Peng Wang, Yifan Yang, Daheng Li, Wei Wei, Yongkang Luo, Guoqiang Deng

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024

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Learning Human-like Functional Grasping for Multi-finger Hands from Few Demonstrations

Wei Wei, Peng Wang, Sizhe Wang, Yongkang Luo, Wanyi Li, Daheng Li, Yayu Huang, Haonan Duan

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024

Project / Video

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Learning Realistic and Reasonable Grasps for Anthropomorphic Hand in Cluttered Scenes

Haonan Duan, Yiming Li, Daheng Li, Wei Wei, Yayu Huang, Peng Wang

ICRA, 2024

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Learning Human-to-Robot Dexterous Handovers for Anthropomorphic Hand

Haonan Duan, Peng Wang, Yiming Li, Daheng Li, Wei Wei

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2021 - 2024, Ph.D., Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • 2019 - 2021, M.Sc., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

πŸ’» Experiences

  • 2024.07 - Now, Senior Researcher, SenseTime Research.
  • 2023.01 - 2023.06, Algorithm Engineer Intern, NIO Autonomous Driving.