Chunru Lin

I am Chunru Lin (林春茹), a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, advised by Prof. Chuang Gan.

I received my bachelor's degree from ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I was fortunate to be a visiting student researcher at CoCoSci Lab in MIT, advised by Prof. Josh Tenenbaum and Chuang Gan during my undergraduate. I also interned at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute advised by Prof. Tao Du.

My research interest lies in Robotics, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Outside of research, I enjoy watching movies and playing billiards.

Email / CV / Google Scholar / Twitter / Github

Professional Services

Conference / Journal Reviewer:

2026: TMLR, NeurIPS, CoRL, BMVC, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, AAAI, ICRA, IROS, SIGGRAPH Asia
2025: NeurIPS, ICCV, CoRL, ICML
2024: AAAI
2023: AAAI

News

[2026.1] Interning at Genesis AI!!!!!!

[2024.12] We announce and release Genesis!!!!!!

[2024.05] Interning at Dolby for the summer

Publications

	RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving Chunru Lin, Hongxin Zhang, Fenghao Yu, Zhehuan Chen, Thomas L. Griffiths, Yejin Choi, David Held, Chuang Gan Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), ED Track, 2026 Project \| Paper \| Code \| Dataset
	Self-Adaptive VLA for Robust Robot Deployment Hongxin Zhang, Chunru Lin, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Zhenjia Xu, Chuang Gan Preprint Project \| Paper
	DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong, Chunru Lin, Zhehuan Chen, Chuang Gan International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026 Project \| Paper \| Code
	RobotSmith: Generative Robotic Tool Design for Acquisition of Complex Manipulation Skills Chunru Lin, Haotian Yuan, Yian Wang, Xiaowen Qiu, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Minghao Guo, Bohan Wang, Yashraj Narang, Dieter Fox, Chuang Gan 2025* Project \| Paper \| Code
	TopoGaussian: Inferring Internal Topology Structures from Visual Clues Xiaoyu Xiong, Changyu Hu, Chunru Lin, Pingchuan Ma, Chuang Gan, Tao Du International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025 Project \| Paper \| Code
	UBSoft: A Simulation Platform for Robotic Skill Learning in Unbounded Soft Environments Chunru Lin, Jugang Fan, Yian Wang, Zeyuan Yang, Zhehuan Chen, Lixing Fang, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Zhou Xian, Chuang Gan Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 Paper
	DiffVL: Scaling Up Soft Body Manipulation using Vision-Language Driven Differentiable Physics Zhiao Huang, Feng Chen, Yewen Pu, Chunru Lin, Hao Su, Chuang Gan Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 Project \| Paper \| Code
	3D Concept Learning and Reasoning from Multi-View Images Yining Hong, Chunru Lin, Yilun Du, Zhenfang Chen, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 Project \| Paper \| Code
	3D Concept Grounding on Neural Fields Yining Hong, Yilun Du, Chunru Lin, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022 Paper \| Code

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