Biography

Yaofeng Cheng is currently an engineer at the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and a postdoctoral researcher at Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, where he conducted research at the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System. He received his B.Eng. degree from the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. During his Ph.D. studies, he was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to conduct a one-year research exchange at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

His research focuses on transparent object perception and robotic manipulation, including depth recovery for transparent objects, point-cloud–based 3D shape estimation, 6-DoF grasp generation guided by spatial geometry, and task-oriented grasping. He has also worked on neural network model pruning. His current research interests include transparent sensing, robotic manipulation and machine learning.

You can find more about his research interests and ongoing projects on his GitHub page.

Seleted Publications

PCF-Grasp: Converting Point Completion to Geometry Feature to Enhance 6-DoF Grasp

Yaofeng Cheng, Fusheng Zha, Wei Guo, Pengfei Wang, Chao Zeng, Lining Sun, Chenguang Yang

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025.11.12

A2G: Leveraging Intuitive Physics for Force-Efficient Robotic Grasping

Yaofeng Cheng, Shengkai Liu, Fusheng Zha*, Wei Guo, Haoyu Du, Pengfei Wang, Zhenshan Bing

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024.5.16

Rethinking Transparent Object Grasping: Depth Completion with Monocular Depth Estimation and Instance Mask

Yaofeng Cheng, Xinkai Gao, Sen Zhang, Chao Zeng, Fusheng Zha, Lining Sun, Chenguang Yang

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026.3.13

Learning effective pruning at initialization from iterative pruning

Shengkai Liu*, Yaofeng Cheng*(Equal Contribution), Fusheng Zha, Wei Guo, Lining Sun, Zhenshan Bing, Chenguang Yang

Arxiv, 2024.8.27

Personal Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhejiang University, China, 2026 – Present, Supervisor: Yue Wang
• Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2020 – 2026 , Supervisor: Fusheng Zha
• Joint Ph.D. Training Program, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2024 – 2025 , Supervisor: Chenguang Yang
• B.Eng. in Mechatronics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2016 – 2020