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Yuxiang ZHOU

Research Engineer Google DeepMind

I received my Ph.D in Computing from Imperial College London in 2019. Currently, I am solving complex robotics problems at Google DeepMind. My research spans Computer Vision, Robotics, and Reinforcement Learning.

London, UK Imperial College London

Key Expertise

Python C++ Reinforcement Learning Computer Vision Robotics Sim-to-Real

Experience

Research Engineer

Google DeepMind

Dec 2018 – Current | London, UK

Pushing the boundaries of robotics and AI.

Research Intern

Google Brain & DeepMind

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018

Focus on Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics.

Teaching Assistant

Imperial College London

2012 – 2017

Department of Computing.

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science

Imperial College London

2014 – 2019

Thesis: Statistical Deformable Models & Imitation Learning.

MEng Computing

Imperial College London

2010 – 2014

Publications

A collection of my work in Robotics and AI.

arXiv 2025

Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the frontier of generalist robots with advanced embodied reasoning, thinking, and motion transfer

Gemini Robotics Team, ..., Yuxiang Zhou.

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Gemini Robotics 1.5
Blog 2024

Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the physical world

Gemini Robotics Team, ..., Yuxiang Zhou.

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Gemini Robotics
TMLR 2023

RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation

Konstantinos Bousmalis*, ..., Yuxiang Zhou*, et al.

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RoboCat
ICLR 2023

Lossless Adaptation of Pretrained Vision Models For Robotic Manipulation

Mohit Sharma, Claudio Fantacci, Yuxiang Zhou, Skanda Koppula, Nicolas Heess, Jon Scholz, Yusuf Aytar

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IROS 2022

How to Spend Your Robot Time: Bridging Kickstarting and Offline Reinforcement Learning

Alex X Lee*, Coline Devin*, Jost Tobias Springenberg*, Yuxiang Zhou, et al.

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Robot Time
CoRL 2021

Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes

Alex X. Lee*, Coline Devin*, Yuxiang Zhou*, et al.

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Stacking
RSS 2021

Manipulator-Independent Representations for Visual Imitation

Yuxiang Zhou, Yusuf Aytar, Konstantinos Bousmalis

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MIR
CoRL 2020

Learning rich touch representations through cross-modal self-supervision

Martina Zambelli, Yusuf Aytar, Francesco Visin, Yuxiang Zhou, Raia Hadsell

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Touch
CoRL 2020

Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Suboptimal Experts

Rae Jeong, Jost Tobias Springenberg, ..., Yuxiang Zhou, et al.

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Dexterous
ICRA 2020

Self-supervised sim-to-real adaptation for visual robotic manipulation

Rae Jeong, Yusuf Aytar, David Khosid, Yuxiang Zhou, et al.

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Sim-to-Real
CVPR 2020

RetinaFace: Single-stage dense face localisation in the wild

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Yuxiang Zhou, Jinke Yu, Irene Kotsia, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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RetinaFace
Arxiv 2019

MeshGAN: Non-linear 3D Morphable Models of Faces

Shiyang Cheng, Michael Bronstein, Yuxiang Zhou, et al.

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MeshGAN
CVPR 2019

Dense 3d face decoding over 2500fps: Joint texture & shape convolutional mesh decoders

Yuxiang Zhou, Jiankang Deng, Irene Kotsia, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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Dense 3D
CVPR 2018

UV-GAN: Adversarial Facial UV Map Completion for Pose-invariant Face Recognition

Jiankang Deng, Shiyang Cheng, Niannan Xue, Yuxiang Zhou, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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UV-GAN
FG 2018

Improve Accurate Pose Alignment and Action Localization by Dense Pose Estimation

Yuxiang Zhou, Jiankang Deng, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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Pose
FG 2018

Cascade Multi-view Hourglass Model for Robust 3D Face Alignment

Jiankang Deng, Yuxiang Zhou, Shiyang Cheng, Stefanos Zaferiou

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Multi-view
IEEE TIP 2017

Joint Multi-view Face Alignment in the Wild

Jiankang Deng, George Trigeorgis, Yuxiang Zhou, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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MHM
CVPRW 2017

Marginal Loss for Deep Face Recognition

Jiankang Deng, Yuxiang Zhou, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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Marginal Loss
CVPR 2016

Estimating Correspondences of Deformable Objects "In-the-wild"

Yuxiang Zhou, Epameinondas Antonakos, Anastasios Roussos, Stefanos Zafeiriou

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Shape Flow
ICASSP 2016

Semi-autonomous Data Enrichment Based on Cross-task Labelling of Missing Targets for Holistic Speech Analysis

Yue Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou, Jie Shen, Björn Schuller

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Speech Analysis
QSIC 2012

Fingertips Detection Algorithm Based on Skin Colour Filtering and Distance Transformation

Yun Liao, Yuxiang Zhou, Hua Zhou, Zhihong Liang

IEEE
Fingertips
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