Hi there! I am Ruirui Zhong, a Ph.D. student at State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where I am supervised by Prof. Yixiong Feng.
From November 2024, I have been conducting a visiting Ph.D. study at the Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Xi Vincent Wang and Prof. Lihui Wang.
My research interests focus on Robotics, Embodied AI, Diffusion Models, Foundation Models.
Updates
- Oct 2025 Our research paper on human-to-robot object handover policy learning has been accepted by RCIM!
- Aug 2025 The paper published in CJME has been awarded the High-Impact Paper Award!
- Aug 2025 I am honored to serve as a local organising Committee member at the CIRP GA 2025!
- Jul 2025 I am honored to be invited to serve as a session chair at the IFAC MIM 2025!
- Jul 2025 One research paper in FJSP has been accepted by IJPR!
- Oct 2024 I started my studies at KTH as a visiting Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Xi Vincent Wang and Prof. Lihui Wang!
- Jul 2024 Our poster won the Best Poster Award at the 8th Conference on Digital Twins and Intelligent Manufacturing Services!
- Nov 2023 Our poster won the Best Poster Award at the the 1st Conference on Human-Centeric Smart Manufacturing!
- Sep 2021 I started a PhD on Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Yixiong Feng, at Zhejiang University!
Projects
Digital Futures: Towards Safe Smart Construction: Algorithms, Digital Twins and Infrastructures
Swedish Digital Futures, 2024.11 - 2025.5
- Developed a vision-based 6D pose estimation system for robot servoing and precise manipulation.
Autonomous Task and Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Systems via Visual Foundation Models and Large Language Models
Centre of Excellence in Production Research, 2025.5 - 2025.10
- Develop foundation model-based scene understanding and integrate LLM-driven task planning for autonomous multi-robot manipulation.
Selected Publications
A two-stage framework for learning human-to-robot object handover policy from 4D spatiotemporal flow
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhihao Liu,
Qiang Qin,
Yixiong Feng,
Xi Vincent Wang,
Lihui Wang,
Jianrong Tan
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2026
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Robot digital twin systems in manufacturing: Technologies, applications, trends and challenges
Qiang Qin,
Zhihao Liu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Xi Vincent Wang,
Lihui Wang,
Magnus Wiktorsson,
Wei Wang
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 97, pp. 103103, 2026
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A Lightweight Human Posture Predictive Assessment in Human-robot Collaboration via Diffusion Mamba
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Yixiong Feng,
Yixiu Yuan,
Jianrong Tan
2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 663-668, 2025
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Solving flexible job-shop problem considering skilled workers via multi-domain graph attention network
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Ansi Zhang,
Chuanjiang Li,
Kebing Jin,
Zhiwu Li,
Jianrong Tan
International Journal of Production Research, pp. 1-22, 2025
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Toward secure industrial internet of behaviours: a federated learning-based lightweight human behaviour recognition method with selective state space models
Bingtao Hu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Jiangxin Yang,
Puyan Li,
Meihao Chen,
Jianrong Tan
International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), pp. 1-17, 2025
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Hybrid Programming-based Scheduling Approach for Many Heterogeneous Computing Tasks with Asynchronous Generation in IIoT
Bingtao Hu,
Ruirui Zhong,
Yong Wang,
Tianyue Wang,
Yixiong Feng,
MengChu Zhou,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2025
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Magnetointeractive Cr2Te3-Coated Liquid Metal Droplets for Flexible Memory Arrays and Wearable Sensors
Puyan Li,
Yixiong Feng,
Chenchen Ding,
Ruirui Zhong,
Weiyu Yan,
Junjie Song,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Bingtao Hu,
Jianrong Tan,
Jingyu Sun,
Xiuju Song
Advanced Materials, vol. 37, no. 13, pp. 2414519, 2025
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Multi-factor embedding GNN-based traffic flow prediction considering intersection similarity
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Fei Wang,
Yixiong Feng,
Zhiwu Li,
Xiuju Song,
Yong Wang,
Shanhe Lou,
Jianrong Tan
Neurocomputing, pp. 129193, 2024
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Deep Causal Domain Generalization Network for Human Action Recognition in Internet of Behaviors
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Xiuju Song,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), pp. 1-6, 2024
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Edge Computing Empowered Digital Twin: An End-to-End Computing Task Scheduling Approach
Ruirui Zhong,
Yixiong Feng,
Xiuju Song,
Bingtao Hu,
Yong Wang,
Puyan Li,
Jianrong Tan
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 3547-3552, 2024
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Human-Robot handover task intention recognition framework by fusing human digital twin and deep domain adaptation
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Zhifeng Zhang,
Shanhe Lou,
Xiuju Song,
Yixiong Feng,
Jianrong Tan
Journal of Engineering Design, pp. 1-17, 2024
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Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification
Ruirui Zhong,
Bingtao Hu,
Yixiong Feng,
Hao Zheng,
Zhaoxi Hong,
Shanhe Lou,
Jianrong Tan
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (CJME), vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 126, 2023
High-Impact Paper Award /
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Others
Activities
- • Local Organising Committee Member at the 74th CIRP General Assembly (CIRP GA 2025)
- • Session Chair at the 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM 2025)
Education Experience
- • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China (2021 – Present)
- • Visiting Ph.D. Student in Product Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2024 – Present)
- • B.Eng in Process Equipment and Control Engineering, Jiangnan University, China (2017 – 2021)
Peer Reviewer Service
- • Served as a journal reviewer for:
- ▫ IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- ▫ Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
- ▫ Advanced Engineering Informatics
- ▫ International Journal of Production Research
- ▫ Nonlinear Dynamics
- ▫ Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
- ▫ The Journal of Supercomputing
- ▫ Neural Computing and Applications
- • Served as a conference reviewer for:
- ▫ IEEE ICRA 2026
- ▫ IEEE TrustCom 2025
- ▫ IEEE CASE 2025
- ▫ SME NAMRC 53
- ▫ IFAC MIM 2025
- ▫ IEEE ICNSC 2024
- ▫ ACAIT 2023
Membership
- • IEEE Graduate Student Member
- • IEEE RAS Graduate Student Member
- • IEEE SMC Graduate Student Member