Kaichen Zhou

Postdoctoral Researcher · MIT Media Lab & Harvard Medical School

Cambridge, MA, USA

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Kaichen Zhou

I am currently a Research Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School, working with Prof. Paul Liang, Prof. Fadel Adib, Prof. Mengyu Wang, and Prof. Yilun Du.

Previously, I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Niki Trigoni and Prof. Andrew Markham, and graduated with First Class Honours (Top 10%) from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where I worked with Prof. Yike Guo.

If you are interested in my research, please feel free to reach out via email — I am always happy to chat and collaborate.

Research

I build models that understand, predict, and act in the dynamic 3D world.

Understanding Dynamic 3D Worlds

Models that accurately see and understand changing real-world environments — geometry, motion, and object interactions — in real time.

Intelligent Robots That Can Act

Robots that use perception to guide their actions, correct mistakes, handle occlusions or disturbances, and collaborate smoothly with humans.

Predictive World Models

Systems that imagine future events, predict how scenes change, and reason about human intentions — enabling safer, long-horizon decision making.

Recent Work

See my Google Scholar for the full list.

More Publications

Awards

CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award Finalist, GCV Workshop [RISE]
CVPR 2026 Best Paper Finalist, WMAS Workshop ($1,500) [GEM-4D]
ACM MobiSys 2025 Best Paper Nominee [mmNorm]
IROS 2024 Finalist, Best Application Paper Award [SCANet]
IROS 2024 Excellent Practice Award, EDM Workshop [GenRob]
Smartathon 2023 2nd place out of ~5,000 participants
AWS Lighthouse Scholarship 2020 Fully funded Oxford DPhil Program [News]

Activities

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop — Physical World AI
CVPR 2026 Workshop — Sense of Space
UbiComp 2026 Publicity Chair

Students

Wonderful students I work with / have worked with.

Advaith Ravishankar Harvard, Master
Yuzhen Chen Harvard, Master
Weihan Xu Duke, Master
Yuhan Wang Imperial College London, Master
Xinhai Chang PKU, Undergraduate
Zeyang Bai HKUST, Research Intern
Bashar Kabbarah UCB, Undergraduate