• 2001 – 2005: The University of Hong Kong, Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Full time)
• 1999 – 2001: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Electronic Engineering, Master of Philosophy (Full time)
• 1998 – 1999: Yanshan University, Electrical Automation, Postgraduate Studies (Full time)
• 1994 – 1998: Yanshan University, Electrical Automation, Bachelor (Full time)）

Work Experience：

• 2025—Present：Shenzhen Loop Area Institute,Professor
• 2019—Present：School of Computer Science, SYSU, Professor
• 2011 – 2019: School of Computer Science, SYSU, Assoc. Professor
• 2008 – 2011: School of Information Science and Technology, SYSU, Lecturer (SYSU Hundred Talents Recruit)
• 2006 – 2007: Dept. of Information Engineering, CUHK, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Cheng Hui, Ph.D., is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of IE at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on single-robot autonomy and multi-robot collaboration, embodied intelligence, and swarm intelligence. She has led projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and major science and technology programs of Guangdong Province. She has published more than 70 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including TR-O, RSS, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, ICRA, CoRL and IROS. She welcomes research collaborations in embodied intelligence and applications from outstanding prospective students.

Personal Academic Homepage：https://cse.sysu.edu.cn/teacher/ChengHui

Laboratory Website：http://lab.sysu-robotics.com/index

1. Hao Ren, Zetong Bi, Yiming Zeng, Le Zheng, Zhi Li, Zhaoliang Wan, Lu Qi, Hui Cheng*. Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control, ICML, 2026

2. Hao Ren, Zetong Bi, Yiming Zeng, Zhaoliang Wan, Lu Qi*, Hui Cheng*. STRNet: Visual Navigation with Spatio-Temporal Representation through Dynamic Graph Aggregation, CVPR, 2026 (Highlight)

3. Jiahui Liang, Botao Zhang, Ying Wu, Zhi Li, jieying zhou, Hui Cheng*. CAMFlow: Learning Coordination-Aware Aerial Manipulation via Consistency Flow Matching, IROS, 2026

4. Yiqing Yuan, Zhi Li, Jiahui Liang, Peiming Duan, Xiaoxun Zhang, Jihe Guo, Hui Cheng*. DST-Planner: Diffusion-Augmented Sequential Topological Planning for Robotic Exploration in Complex Environments, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

5. Kairao Zheng, Zhi Li, Yiqing Yuan, Hui Cheng*. GPTS-Nav: End-to-End Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments with Graph-Privileged Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

6. Yihan Tu, Ruidong Mei, Hui Cheng*. OmniVIL-Calib: Target-Free Joint Calibration for Omnidirectional Camera, IMU, and LiDAR, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

7. Haomin Rong, Yuying Chen, Zhiyong Xu, Lijie Xie, Qingyu Yan, Hui Cheng*. Mixture-Of-Experts Policy for Smooth and Stable Multi-Posture Fall Recovery in Bipedal Robot, ICRA, 2026

8. Yiqing Yuan, Zhi Li, Hao Ren, Kairao Zheng, Hui Cheng*. Active Scene Reconstruction with Topological Reasoning and Semantic-Augmented Reinforcement Learning, ICRA, 2026

9. Renming Liu, Hao Ren, Lanxiang Zheng, Yiming Zeng, Ying Wu, Hui Cheng*. VLION: Vision-Language Guided Interactive Object Navigation with Mobile Manipulation, ICRA, 2026

10. Shuhang Wang, Le Zheng, Yiming Zeng, Hui Cheng*. SR-Planner: Sampling-Based Path Planning with Feasibility-Aware Focus Regions and Robust Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulator, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

11. Zhi Li, Kairao Zheng, Yiqing Yuan, Junlong Huang, Xiaoxun Zhang, Jinze Wu, Hui Cheng*. Learning to Explore Efficiently: Heterogeneous Topological Graphs and Lightweight Global Reasoning for Robotic Exploration,  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

12. Zhaoliang Wan, Zetong Bi, Zida Zhou, Hao Ren, Yiming Zeng, Yihan Li, Lu Qi, Xu Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang and Hui Cheng*. RAPID Hand: Robust, Affordable, Perception-Integrated, Dexterous Manipulation Platform for Embodied Intelligence, NeurIPS, 2025

13. Mingxin Wei, Lanxiang Zheng, Ying Wu, Ruidong Mei, Hui Cheng*. Meta-Learning Enhanced Model Predictive Contouring Control for Agile and Precise Quadrotor Flight, IEEE Trans. on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

14. Ying Wu, Zida Zhou, RenmingLiu, Lanxiang Zheng, Hui Cheng*. A Generic Continuous Multi-Joint Spinal Robotic System for Agile and Accurate Behaviors with GNN-MPC method, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025

15. Ying Wu, Zida Zhou, Mingxin Wei, Lijie Xie, Renming Liu, Hui Cheng*. Learning Variable Whole-body Control for Agile Aerial Manipulation in Strong Winds, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

16. Hao Ren, Yiming Zeng, Zetong Bi, Zhaoliang Wan, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng*. Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models, CVPR, 2025

17. Lanxiang Zheng, Mingxin Wei, Ruidong Mei, Kai Xu, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng*. AAGE: Air-Assisted Ground Robotic Autonomous Exploration in Large-Scale Unknown Environments, IEEE Trans. on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

18. Rui Mao, Hui Cheng*. Effective Heterogeneous Point Cloud-Based Place Recognition and Relative Localization for Ground and Aerial Vehicles, ICRA, 2025

19. Zixuan Zhuang, Le Zheng, Wanyue Li, Renming Liu, Peng Lu, Hui Cheng*. RM-Planner: Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Whole-Body Model Predictive Control for Mobile Manipulation, ICRA, 2025

20. Yiming Zeng, Hao Ren, Shuhang Wang, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng*. NaviDiffusor: Cost-Guided Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation, ICRA, 2025

21. Hanwen Zhang, Yujie Zheng, Zhewen Yan, Hui Cheng*. Rapid-Mapping: LiDAR-Visual Implicit Neural Representations for Real-Time Dense Mapping, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

22. Zhi Li, Yanjie Yang, Hui Cheng*. Efficient Multi-Agent Cooperation: Scalable Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Networks and Limited Communication, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024

23. Hao Ding, Yiming Zeng, Zhaoliang Wan, Hui Cheng*. OPG-Policy: Occluded Push-Grasp Policy Learning with Amodal Segmentation, IROS, 2024

24. Yiming Zeng, Mingdong Wu, Long Yang, Jiyao Zhang, Hao Ding, Hui Cheng*, Hao Dong*. LVDiffusor: Distilling Functional Rearrangement Priors from Large Models into Diffusor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

25. Zhaoliang Wan, Yonggen Ling, Senlin Yi, Lu Qi, Wangwei Lee, Minglei Lu, Sicheng Yang, Peng Lu, Xu Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Hui Cheng*. VinT-6D: A Large-Scale Object-in-hand Dataset from Vision, Touch and Proprioception, ICML, 2024

26. Huajian Huang, Longwei Li, Hui Cheng, Sai-Kit Yeung. Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras, CVPR, 2024

27. Mingxin Wei, Lanxiang Zheng, Hongli Li, Hui Cheng*. Adaptive Neural Network-based Model Path-Following Contouring Control for Quadrotor Under Diversely Uncertain Disturbances, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Feb. 2024

28. Ying Wu, Zida Zhou, Mingxin Wei, Hui Cheng*. Robust and Energy-Efficient Control for Multi-Task Aerial Manipulation with Automatic Arm-Switching, ICRA, 2024

Research Projects：

Hosted Projects：

1. 2022–2025: Collaborative Navigation, Intelligent Control and Application Verification Based on Modular PNT Platform, Sub-project of National Key Research and Development Program of China, No.2022YFB3903804, Principal Investigator
2. 2023–2026: Research on Intelligent Classification, Standardized Description and Systematic Standards of Game Problems, Sub-project of the Major Project under the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence" Initiative of Sci-Tech Innovation 2030, No. 2022ZD0119602, Sub-project Principal Investigator
3. 2017–2021: Distributed Autonomous Cooperative Operation of UAV Swarms, Major Science and Technology Special Project of Guangdong Province, No. 2017B010116003, Project Principal Investigator

Participated Projects：

1. 2023–2026: Multi-source Video Image Fusion and Processing under Integrated Air-Ground Collaborative Monitoring, Joint Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No. U22A2095, Core Participant
2. 2017–2020: Emotional Cognition, Expression and Management for Service Robots, Joint Project of NSFC & Shenzhen Robotics Basic Research Center, No. U1613211, Core Participant