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Lulin Liu

Currently, I am a research assistant in the PHAI Lab, advised by Dr. Fan. Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and spent two years studying at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. I am broadly interested in embodied AI, world models, and 3D scene understanding.

My long-term goal is to build intelligent systems that can continuously perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world. My current research focuses on embodied AI, world models, and 3D scene understanding.

Highlights
  • [02/2026] 🎉 EgoTL was accepted to CVPR 2026 as a Findings paper. See you in Denver ⛰️, though sadly not for skiing this time 🎿
  • [12/2025] 🎓 Received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
  • [08/2025] 🧑‍🏫 Served as a Teaching Assistant for CSCI 4541: Natural Language Processing at the University of Minnesota.
  • [09/2023] 📍 Began my B.S. studies in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Honestly, I came for the snow ❄️☃️
  • [06/2023] 🎓 Completed two years of undergraduate study in Computer Science at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.
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Topics: Egocentric and Embodied AI / (*: indicates equal contribution; review status follows the CV.)

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks
Lulin Liu*, Dayou Li*, Yiqing Liang, Sicong Jiang, Hitesh Vijay, Hezhen Hu, Xuhai Xu, Zirui Liu, Srinivas Shakkottai, Manling Li, Zhiwen Fan†

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, 2026

arXiv Project Page

Egocentric World Model for Photorealistic Hand Object Interaction Synthesis
Dayou Li*, Lulin Liu*, Bangya Liu, Shijie Zhou, Jiu Feng, Ziqi Lu, Minghui Zheng, Chenyu You, Zhiwen Fan†

Under Review 2026

arXiv Project Page

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A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models
Nuo Chen*, Lulin Liu*, Zihao Li, Ziyao Zeng, Zihao Zhu, Wenyan Cong, Junyuan Hong, Yunhao Yang, Zhengzhong Tu, Yan Wang, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone, Zhangyang Wang, Yang Zhou, Zhiwen Fan†

Under Review 2026

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Anatomically Compositional Latent Diffusion for Controllable 3D Brain MRI Generation
Huiwen Han*, Lulin Liu*, Bangya Liu, Yuanhao Cai, Nuo Chen, Jade Wang, Ziqian Xie, Chenyu You, Shuiwang Ji, Degui Zhi, Zhiwen Fan†

Under Review 2026

EndoMD-SLAM: Endoscopic Gaussian Splatting SLAM under Optical Degradation with Memory and Static-Transient Decomposition
Nuo Chen*, Kangqi Ni*, Lulin Liu, Joga Ivatury, Ying Ding, Farshid Alambeigi, Tianlong Chen, Zhiwen Fan†

Under Review 2026

Dream2Fix: Learning Actionable Manipulation Recovery via Counterfactual Failure Synthesis
Dayou Li*, Jiuzhou Lei*, Hao Wang, Lulin Liu, Yunhao Yang, Zihan Wang, Bangya Liu, Minghui Zheng, Zhiwen Fan†

Under Review 2026

arXiv Project Page

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  • Reviewer: IROS 2026
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