Chaofan Zhang | 张超凡

Chaofan Zhang 张超凡

Assistant Professor, CASIA

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA).

I received my B.Eng. degree in Automation from Central South University and my Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from CASIA, advised by Prof. Shuo Wang. I collaborate closely with Prof. Shaowei Cui. My research focuses on visuotactile sensing, tactile simulation, dexterous robotic manipulation, and tactile foundation models.

Research at a Glance

01Visuotactile Sensing High-resolution geometry, force/torque, and event-based tactile perception. 02Tactile Simulation Physics-driven, multi-mode simulation for scalable Sim2Real learning. 03Dexterous Manipulation Contact-aware policies that fuse vision and touch for precise interaction. 04Tactile Foundation Models Language-aligned tactile representations, VTLA, and tactile world models.

Selected News

FG-CLTP was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

FeelWorld was released as an arXiv preprint for hierarchical visuo-tactile prediction and contact-aware planning.

VTLA was published in Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics.

TacFlex was published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Selected Awards

  • Selected for the 2025 CCF Technical Committee on Intelligent Robots Ph.D. Dissertation Incentive Program.
  • Best Paper in AI in Robotics Finalist, IEEE ROBIO 2025.
  • Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics, IEEE ICMA 2023.