I am currently the Technical Lead of Embodied Foundation Models at AI² Robotics (智平方), and an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I received my Ph.D. from the Artificial Intelligence Thrust, Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in 2026, supervised by Prof. Hui Xiong (AAAS/IEEE/AAAI/ACM Fellow, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Nature npj AI).

My research focuses on Brain-Inspired Embodied Intelligence, spanning three interconnected layers:

• Human-Like Sensing — Neural interfaces, surface electromyography (sEMG), and event-driven vision for robust perception
• Brain-Inspired Neural Architecture — Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), neuromorphic computing, and cortex-cerebellum-spinal cord hierarchy modeling
• Action-Grounded Learning — Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, hierarchical skill learning, and humanoid robotic control

I have published 45+ papers (h-index 15, i10-index 19) at top international AI conferences including ICML, NeurIPS, ECCV, CVPR, ICLR, AAAI, and journals such as IJCV, JNE, TNSRE, TMM, RA-L, THMS.

If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at guoweiyu96@gmail.com.

🔥 News

• 2026.08:   Joining the MMLab, CUHK as an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow!
• 2026.08:   Our StarVLA reaches 3.5K+ stars on GitHub!
• 2026.08:   New preprint: How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State? is out on arXiv!
• 2026.07:   New preprint: The Geometry of Flow-Matching Uncertainty is out on arXiv!
• 2026.05:   Released our AlphaBrain Platform!
• 2026.05:   One paper accepted at ICML 2026!
• 2026.04:   Our StarVLA report has been published!
• 2026.02:   Our StarVLA reaches 2.6K+ stars on GitHub!
• 2025.12:   StarVLA selected as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Open-Source Embodied AI Repositories!
• 2025.10:   One paper accepted at AAAI 2025!
• 2025.09:   One paper accepted at IJCV 2025! Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025!
• 2025.01:   One paper accepted at ICLR 2025!
• 2024.09:   One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024!
• 2024.07:   One paper accepted at CVPR 2024!

📚 Achievements

• Published 45+ international papers at top venues (ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, AAAI, IJCV, JNE, THMS, TMM, RA-L), with 800+ citations (h-index 15).
• Applied for 16 patents, including 2 PCT international patents.
• Co-founded StarVLA: open-source VLA framework with 3.5K+ GitHub stars (460+ forks), adopted by Unitree and Alibaba Qwen, ranked Top 10 Most Influential Embodied AI Repositories 2025.
• Technical Lead of Embodied Foundation Models at AI² Robotics (智平方, valuation exceeding 10 billion RMB).
• Involved in writing one book chapter (Generalization with Deep Learning) on World Scientific book.
• Reported by People’s Daily (人民日报), China Central Television (央视新闻), and Guangzhou Daily.
• Co-founded a neural-interface company with a valuation of over 70 million RMB.

🎓 Education

• 2026.08 - Present, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab), Postdoctoral Fellow (incoming)
• 2022.08 - 2026.07, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D.
• 2019.08 - 2022.06, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Artificial Intelligence, M.S.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Dalian University of Technology, School of Software Engineering, B.S.

🤝 Collaboration & Industry

Technical Lead, Xlab & EAI (Large-Model & Research Divisions) AI² Robotics (智平方) Leading the large-model technical roadmap and the research division, covering the development and deployment of brain-inspired embodied large models in commercial humanoid robotic products.

Postdoctoral Fellow (incoming) MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2026 – Present Brain-inspired embodied intelligence and Vision-Language-Action models.

Research Associate Johns Hopkins University · 2021.09 – 2022.06 Supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille (IEEE Fellow). Published at ECCV.

Long-term Collaboration Imperial College London · 2019 – Present With Prof. Dario Farina. Published papers in JNE, THMS.

📝 Selected Publications

Nature (under review)

• Guo, Weiyu, He Zhang, Pengteng Li, Tiefu Cai, Ziyang Chen, Jinhui Ye, Yandong Guo, He Xiao, Yongkui Yang, Ying Sun and Hui Xiong. “A Brain-like Embodied Intelligence for Fluid and Fast Reflexive Robotics Control” Nature (Under review) [Preview]

Code base

• Co-founders and Core Developers, StarVLA is a modular and flexible codebase for developing Vision-Language Model (VLM) to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. 3.5K+ stars [Preview] [Report]

arXiv 2026

• Yiren Zhao, Ziyang Chen, Ziyang Rao, Pengteng Li, He Zhang, Guo, Weiyu, Yandong Guo, and Rushi Dai. “How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?” arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.03052 (2026). [Preview]

arXiv 2026

• Ziyang Rao, Yiren Zhao, Guo, Weiyu, Ben Fei, Yandong Guo, and Hui Xiong. “The Geometry of Flow-Matching Uncertainty: A Cost-free Uncertainty Proxy and Its Application in Flow-based VLA Failure Detection.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27933 (2026). [Preview] [Code]

ICML 2026

• Pengteng Li, Guo, Weiyu, He Zhang, Tiefu Cai, Xiao He, Yandong Guo, and Hui Xiong. “Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action.” ICML 2026. [Preview]

NeurIPS 2025

• Guo, Weiyu, Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Jianxiang He, Yijie Xu, Jinhui Ye, Ying Sun, and Hui Xiong. “Logic-in-Frames: Dynamic Keyframe Search via Visual Semantic-Logical Verification for Long Video Understanding.” NeurIPS 2025. [Preview]

ICML 2025

• Guo, Weiyu, Ziyue Qiao, Ying Sun, Yijie Xu, and Hui Xiong. “Revisiting Noise Resilience Strategies in Gesture Recognition: Short-Term Enhancement in Surface Electromyographic Signal Analysis” ICML (2025). [Preview]

NeurIPS 2024

• Guo, Weiyu, Ying Sun, Yijie Xu, Ziyue Qiao, Yongkui Yang, and Hui Xiong. “SpGesture: Source-Free Domain-adaptive sEMG-based Gesture Recognition with Jaccard Attentive Spiking Neural Network.” NeurIPS (2024). [Preview]

ECCV 2022

• Guo, Weiyu, Li, Zhaoshuo, Yang, Yongkui, Wang, Zheng, Taylor, Russell H, Unberath, Mathias, Yuille, Alan, Li, Yingwei. “Context-Enhanced Stereo Transformer.” ECCV (2022) [Preview]

JNE

• Guo, Weiyu, Ma, Chenfei, Wang, Zheng, Zhang, Hang, Farina, Dario, Jiang, Ning, Lin, Chuang. “Long exposure convolutional memory network for accurate estimation of finger kinematics from surface electromyographic signals.” Journal of Neural Engineering 18(2) 026027 (2021). IOP Publishing

THMS 2023

• Guo, Weiyu, Jiang, Ning, Farina, Dario, Su, Jingyong, Wang, Zheng, Lin, Chuang, Xiong, Hui. “Multi-attention feature fusion network for accurate estimation of finger kinematics from surface electromyographic signals.” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 53(3) 512-519 (2023). IEEE

Other Publications

• Li, Pengteng, Song, Pinhao, Li, Wuyang, Guo, Weiyu, Yao, Huizai, Xu, Yijie, Liu, Dugang, Xiong, Hui. “See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model.” NeurIPS (2025)

• Yao, Huizai, Zhao, Sicheng, Li, Pengteng, Cui, Yi, Lu, Shuo, Guo, Weiyu, Lu, Yunfan, Xu, Yijie, Xiong, Hui. “Beyond Boundaries: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models for Source-Free Object Detection.” AAAI (2026)

• Wang, Shaoguang, Guo, Weiyu, Chen, Ziyang, Xu, Yijie, Hu, Xuming, Xiong, Hui. “Less is More: Token-Efficient Video-QA via Adaptive Frame-Pruning and Semantic Graph Integration.” CVPR Findings (2026)

• He, Jianxiang, Hong, Meisheng, Li, Jungang, Guo, Weiyu, Hu, Xuming, Xiong, Hui. “VSI: Visual Subtitle Integration for Keyframe Selection to Enhance Long Video Understanding.” CVPR Findings (2026)

• Li, Pengteng, Lu, Yunfan, Song, Pinhao, Guo, Weiyu, Yao, Huizai, Yu, F. Richard, Xiong, Hui. “DeblurSplat: SfM-free 3D Gaussian Splatting with Event Camera for Robust Deblurring.” IEEE TMM (2026). IEEE

• Sun, Guoying, Guo, Weiyu, Shao, Tong, Yang, Yang, Zeng, Haijin, Liu, Jie, Su, Jingyong. “BrainCognizer: Brain Decoding with Human Visual Cognition Simulation for fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction.” IEEE BIBM (2025). IEEE

• Lu, Yunfan, Xu, Yijie, Ma, Wenzong, Guo, Weiyu, Xiong, Hui. “Event camera demosaicing via swin transformer and pixel-focus loss.” CVPR (2024)

• Guo, Weiyu, Sun, Guoying, He, JianXiang, Shao, Tong, Wang, Shaoguang, Chen, Ziyang, Hong, Meisheng, Sun, Ying, Xiong, Hui. “A Survey of fMRI to Image Reconstruction.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16861 (2025)

• Lu, Yunfan, Xu, Xiaogang, Lu, Hao, Qian, Yanlin, Li, Pengteng, Yao, Huizai, Yang, Bin, Li, Junyi, Cai, Qianyi, Guo, Weiyu. “SEE: See Everything Every Time–Adaptive Brightness Adjustment for Broad Light Range Images via Events.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.21120 (2025)

• Lin, Chuang, Zhao, Chunxiao, Zhang, Jianhua, Chen, Chen, Jiang, Ning, Farina, Dario, Guo, Weiyu. “Continuous Estimation of Hand Kinematics from Electromyographic Signals based on Power-and Time-Efficient Transformer Deep Learning Network.” IEEE TNSRE (2024). IEEE

• Chen, Xingjian, Guo, Weiyu, Lin, Chuang, Jiang, Ning, Su, Jingyong. “Cross-subject lifelong learning for continuous estimation from surface electromyographic signal.” IEEE TNSRE (2024). IEEE

• Zhang, Gaomin, Guo, Weiyu, Xiong, Xi, Guan, Zhongcheng. “A hybrid approach combining data envelopment analysis and recurrent neural network for predicting the efficiency of research institutions.” Expert Systems with Applications 238 (2024). Pergamon

• Qiao, Ziyue, Xiao, Meng, Guo, Weiyu, Luo, Xiao, Xiong, Hui. “Information filtering and interpolating for semi-supervised graph domain adaptation.” Pattern Recognition 153 (2024). Pergamon

• Zhang, He, Sun, Ying, Guo, Weiyu, Liu, Yafei, Lu, Haonan, Lin, Xiaodong, Xiong, Hui. “Interactive interior design recommendation via coarse-to-fine multimodal reinforcement learning.” ACM MM (2023)

• Lin, Chuang, Chen, Xingjian, Guo, Weiyu, Jiang, Ning, Farina, Dario, Su, Jingyong. “A BERT based method for continuous estimation of cross-subject hand kinematics from surface electromyographic signals.” IEEE TNSRE 31 (2022). IEEE

• Ma, Chenfei, Guo, Weiyu, Zhang, Hang, Samuel, Oluwarotimi Williams, Ji, Xiaopeng, Xu, Lisheng, Li, Guanglin. “A novel and efficient feature extraction method for deep learning based continuous estimation.” IEEE RA-L 6(4) (2021). IEEE

• Ma, Chenfei, Lin, Chuang, Samuel, Oluwarotimi Williams, Guo, Weiyu, Zhang, Hang, Greenwald, Steve, Xu, Lisheng, Li, Guanglin. “A bi-directional LSTM network for estimating continuous upper limb movement from surface electromyography.” IEEE RA-L 6(4) (2021). IEEE

• Guo, Weiyu, Ma, Chenfei, Wang, Zheng, Zhang, Hang, Farina, Dario, Jiang, Ning, Lin, Chuang. “Long exposure convolutional memory network for accurate estimation of finger kinematics from surface electromyographic signals.” JNE 18(2) (2021). IOP Publishing

• Chen, Chao, Guo, Weiyu, Ma, Chenfei, Yang, Yongkui, Wang, Zheng, Lin, Chuang. “sEMG-based continuous estimation of finger kinematics via large-scale temporal convolutional network.” Applied Sciences 11(10) (2021). MDPI

• Guo, Linlin, Zhang, Hang, Guo, Weiyu, Fang, Jian, Lu, Bingxian, Ma, Chenfei, Li, Guanglin, Lin, Chuang, Wang, Lei. “Deep Learning for Device-free Human Activity Recognition Using WiFi Signals.” Generalization With Deep Learning (2021)

• Guo, Linlin, Zhang, Hang, Wang, Chao, Guo, Weiyu, Diao, Guangqiang, Lu, Bingxian, Lin, Chuang, Wang, Lei. “Towards CSI-based diversity activity recognition via LSTM-CNN encoder-decoder neural network.” Neurocomputing 444 (2021). Elsevier

• Wang, Zheng, Wang, Zhuo, Liao, Jian, Chen, Chao, Yang, Yongkui, Dong, Bo, Chen, Weiguang, Chen, Wenxuan, Lei, Ming, Guo, Weiyu. “CNN-DMA: a predictable and scalable direct memory access engine for convolutional neural network.” GLSVLSI (2021)

• Chen, Wenxuan, Wang, Zheng, Lei, Ming, Dong, Bo, Wang, Zhuo, Yang, Yongkui, Chen, Chao, Guo, Weiyu, Liang, Chen, Zhang, Qian. “Improving system latency of AI accelerator with on-chip pipelined activation preprocessing and multi-mode batch inference.” IEEE AICAS (2021). IEEE

• Wang, Chao, Guo, Weiyu, Zhang, Hang, Guo, Linlin, Huang, Changcheng, Lin, Chuang. “sEMG-based continuous estimation of grasp movements by long-short term memory network.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 59 (2020). Elsevier

• Guo, Weiyu, Wang, Chao, Lin, Chuang, Wang, Chenrui. “Long short term memory model based continuous estimation of human finger joint angles.” IEEE RCAR (2019). IEEE

• Zhang, Hang, Wang, Chao, Guo, Weiyu, Guo, Linlin, Lin, Chuang. “DFNN-based gesture recognition with the shift and damage of the HD-sEMG electrodes.” IEEE ROBIO (2019). IEEE

• Chen, Rui, Chen, YuanZhi, Guo, Weiyu, Chen, Chao, Wang, Zheng, Yang, Yongkui. “SEMG-based gesture recognition using GRU with strong robustness against forearm posture.” IEEE RCAR (2021). IEEE

• Ma, Chenfei, Guo, Weiyu, Xu, Lisheng, Li, Guanglin. “Finger joint angle estimation based on sEMG signals and deep learning method.” IEEE RCAR (2021). IEEE

• Wu, Yaqi, Fan, Zhihao, Chu, Xiaofeng, Ren, Jimmy S, Li, Xiaoming, Yue, Zongsheng, Li, Chongyi, Zhou, Shangcheng, Feng, Ruicheng, Dai, Yuekun. “Mipi 2024 challenge on demosaic for hybridevs camera: Methods and results.” CVPR Workshop (2024)

• Yunfan, LU, Xu, Xiaogang, Hao, LU, Qian, Yanlin, Yang, Bin, Li, Junyi, Cai, Qianyi, Guo, Weiyu, Xiong, Hui. “SEE: See Everything Every Time-Broader Light Range Image Enhancement via Events.”

Preprints & Under Review

• Wang, Shaoguang, Guo, Weiyu, Fei, Ben, Shao, Xiaohong, Wang, Zhihui, Ouyang, Wanli. “Diagnosing and Narrowing the Simulation-to-Real Gap in Powder X-ray Diffraction with a Wet-Dry Agentic Loop.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.22400 (2026)

• Wang, Shaoguang, Guo, Weiyu, Dai, Rushi, Zhao, Yiren, Guo, Yandong, Xiong, Hui. “Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04692 (2026)

• Wang, Haobo, Sun, Baoli, Zou, Anqi, Huang, Dongsheng, Lv, Zelin, Wang, Ning, Li, Rui, Zhou, Dongzhan, Guo, Weiyu, Wang, Zhihui, Ouyang, Wanli. “LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23704 (2026)

• Zhang, He, Sun, Ying, Li, Pengteng, Chen, Ziyang, Zhao, Yiren, Rao, Ziyang, Guo, Weiyu, Guo, Yandong, Xiong, Hui. “Source-Lifted Flow Matching for Intervenable Multimodal Imitation.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10206 (2026)

• Liu, Jiaxin, Xu, Xun, Zhang, Zhenhao, Wang, Hanqing, Chen, Ruiqi, Chang, Shi, Guo, Weiyu, Kneip, Laurent. “Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29384 (2026)

• Chen, Ziyang, Wang, Shaoguang, Guo, Weiyu, Cai, Qianyi, Zhang, He, Li, Pengteng, Zhao, Yiren, Guo, Yandong. “PHASER: Phase-Aware and Semantic Experience Replay for Vision-Language-Action Models.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.03598 (2026)

• Wang, Shaoguang, Guo, Weiyu, Chen, Ziyang, Hu, Xuming, Xiong, Hui. “Where to Focus: Query-Modulated Multimodal Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17422 (2026)

• Deng, Han, Zou, Anqi, Zhang, Hanling, Fei, Ben, Zhang, Chengyu, Wang, Haobo, Guo, Xinru, Li, Zhenyu, Wang, Xuzhu, Yang, Peng, Zhang, Fujian, Guo, Weiyu, Shao, Xiaohong, Liu, Zhaoyang, Tang, Shixiang, Wang, Zhihui, Ouyang, Wanli. “Owl-AuraID 1.0: An Intelligent System for Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation and Scientific Data Analysis.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.29828 (2026)

• Xu, Yijie, Yao, Huizai, Guo, Zhiyu, Li, Pengteng, Liu, Aiwei, Hu, Xuming, Guo, Weiyu, Xiong, Hui. “You Only Need 4 Extra Tokens: Synergistic Test-Time Adaptation for LLMs.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10223 (2025)

Selected Patents

• Training method, training device of continuous motion information prediction model PCT/CN2020/133443
• Intelligent interactive glove with AI chip, interactive method and storage medium PCT/CN2021/107108
• Power efficiency test method, adjustment method, computer equipment CN202010389035.4
• An in-memory computing accelerator and its optimization method CN202011406904.6
• An automatic optimization method of graph data processing framework CN202011358762.0

🏫 Teaching & Mentorship

Teaching Assistant:

• AIAA 5037: Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures — HKUST(GZ)
• AIAA 5031: Introduction to Computing Using Python — HKUST(GZ)
• HKUST Summer Research Training Program Mentor

Mentored Students:

🔬 Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, ICML

Journal Reviewer: Scientific Reports, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Invited Speaker: Shenzhen Loop Area Institute — “Brain-Inspired Computing and Embodied Intelligence”

🏅 Awards

• National Scholarship for Postgraduates, 2021
• The President Scholarship of CAS, 2021
• Merit Student of UCAS, 2020
• Outstanding Graduates of DUT (top 1%), 2019
• Outstanding Graduates of Liaoning Province (top 1%), 2019
• Merit Student of DUT, 2018