About Me

Here is Ziteng Gao (Michael, 高紫腾).

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen(HITSZ), majored in computer science, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Shuo Yang.

Before joining HITSZ, I was a MLE at XPENG Motors, focused on end-to-end autonomous driving algorithms, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, for pretrain, SFT, and RLFT. More prior, I got my MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore(NUS), and received my B.Eng. degree in Mechatronics from Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT).

I am always open to academic discussions and potential collaborations. Please feel free to reach out to me at e1010863 [at] u.nus.edu

updated: Mar. 2026

Research Interests

Embodied AI, Autonomous Driving
VLA, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning
Locomotion and Manipulation, End-to-end Planning

News

Mar. 2026: Excited to start my Ph.D. journey at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(HITSZ).
Feb. 2026: I have just ended my 2 years MLE journey at XPeng Motors, an amazing and fruitful experience.

Publications

TouchAnything: A Dataset and Framework for Bimanual Tactile Estimation from Egocentric Video
Project Page
Jianyi Zhou, Ziteng Gao, Feiyang Hong, Zirui Liu, Guannan Zhang, Weisheng Dai, Ruichen Zhen, Chuqiao Lyu, Haotian Wu, Yinian Mao, Xushi Wang, Yuxiang Jiang, Shuo Yang
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen; Meituan Academy of Robotics

The first large-scale multi-view tactile dataset for egocentric hand-object interaction with bimanual 3D hand pose annotations and dense continuous pressure maps.

Experience

Career

Xpeng Moters | Guangzhou, China, Dec 2023 - Feb 2026

Full-time Autonomous Driving Algorithm Engineer (MLE), Autonomous Driving Center
Design and optimize Xplanner (XPENG Motor’s self-developed end-to-end model for massive production)
IL-Pretrain, SFT, RLFT

Starj.ai | Guangzhou, China, Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

Intern, Planning Algorithm Engineer

Education

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) | Shenzhen, China, Mar 2026 - Current

Ph.D. student, iLearn-Lab, Computer Science

National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore, Jul 2022 - Sep 2023

MS Mechanical Engineering

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | Harbin, China, Aug 2018 - Jun 2022

B.Eng. Mechatronic Engineering
NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI) | Collaboration by NUS and HIT | Suzhou, China, Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) | Exchange Student | Philadelphia, USA, Jan 2019 - Feb 2019