HKU's Hengshuang Zhao Named MIT TR35 China for Work in Embodied AI and 3D Vision
YiMaTweets · x · 2026-08-08
Professor Hengshuang Zhao from HKU’s School of Computing and Data Science has been selected for MIT Technology Review’s "35 Innovators Under 35 China" list.
As a frontier pioneer in Physical Intelligence, Zhao has established a general framework spanning 2D to 3D, perception to understanding, and virtual environments to physical reality, laying the technical groundwork for visual, spatial, and embodied intelligence. His notable achievements include PSPNet, a foundational semantic segmentation framework cited over 20,000 times, and the Point Transformer series, which has the potential to reshape 3D backbones.
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