Runmao Yao姚润茂
I am a PhD Student at MMLab@NTU, supervised by Prof. Ziwei Liu. I received my bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University.
My research focuses on Physical AI and Embodied AI. I explore how embodied intelligence can bridge the gap between powerful language models and the physical world through benchmarks, data, and models.
Feel free to reach out for collaborations, questions, or just to chat!
yaorunmao@gmail.com
News
- Sep 30, 2026EgoTools is out — a 100-hour egocentric dataset and diagnostic benchmark for tool-centric reasoning in real-world videos.
- Aug 27, 2026Code as Worlds is out — introducing executable world representations for grounded physical reasoning.
- Aug 10, 2026Started my Ph.D. at MMLab@NTU, advised by Prof. Ziwei Liu.
- Jul 30, 2026ACE-Data-0 is out — a large-scale, long-horizon, multimodal dataset for household human-object and human-scene interactions.
Earlier updates
- Jul 17, 2026Apple-π is out — the first benchmark for evaluating law-grounded physical reasoning in video models.
- Jun 18, 2026S-Agent is out — a spatial tool-use agent for continuous multi-view image and video reasoning.
- May 26, 2026SpatialBench is out — a cross-paradigm benchmark for evaluating spatial foundation models.
- May 20, 2026PhysX-Omni is out — a unified framework for simulation-ready physical 3D asset generation.
- Jan 23, 2026AnchoredDream is out — zero-shot 360° indoor scene generation from a single image.
- Sep 28, 2025Joined MMLab@NTU as a Research Assistant.
- Jun 21, 2025Graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.Eng. in Software Engineering.
- Mar 18, 2025SuperPC is out — a single diffusion model for point cloud completion, upsampling, denoising, and colorization.
- Mar 03, 2025AirRoom is out — an object-aware approach to room reidentification.
- Dec 15, 2024Joined Prof. Yu-Shen Liu's group for my undergraduate thesis.
- Jul 01, 2024Joined SAIR Lab as a summer research intern.
Publications
—citationsGoogle Scholar
AnchoredDream: Zero-Shot 360° Indoor Scene Generation from a Single View via Geometric Grounding
Background
Education
- 2026.08 - Present Ph.D. College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
- 2021.09 - 2025.06 B.Eng. School of Software, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
Experience
- 2026.08 - Present Research Collaborator ByteDance PICO, Beijing, China
- 2025.09 - 2026.07 Research Assistant MMLab@NTU, Singapore
