Tianyu Li
Co-Founder & CEO · Archon Robotics · PhD @ OpenDriveLab

Tianyu Li 李天羽

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About

I am Co-Founder & CEO of Archon Robotics, building Large Humanoid Model toward general-purpose whole-body intelligence.

I am also a PhD student at Fudan University and Shanghai Innovation Institute, conducting research at OpenDriveLab under the supervision of Prof. Hongyang Li.

My research focuses on Physical AI, end-to-end AD systems, 3D reconstruction, and generative models. I'm passionate about developing Physical AI systems that can perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world.

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Publications

arXiv arxiv:2606.19836

World Engine: Towards the Era of Post-Training for Autonomous Driving

Tianyu Li, Li Chen, Caojun Wang, Haochen Liu, Kashyap Chitta, et al.

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TRO'26 arxiv:2604.01158

SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision

Junli Ren, Yinghui Li, Kai Zhang, ..., Tianyu Li, et al.

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RSS'26 arxiv:2602.10106

EgoHumanoid: Unlocking In-the-Wild Loco-Manipulation with Robot-Free Egocentric Demonstration

Modi Shi, Shijia Peng, Jin Chen, Haoran Jiang, Tianyu Li, et al.

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RSS'26 WS arxiv:2606.11092

RoboNaldo: Accurate, Stable and Powerful Humanoid Soccer Shooting via Motion-Guided Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Yichao Zhong, Yidan Lu, Yuhang Lu, ..., Tianyu Li, et al.

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RSS'26 WS arxiv:2602.09021

χ0: Resource-Aware Robust Manipulation via Taming Distributional Inconsistencies

χ0 Contributors, Tianyu Li, et al.

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CVPR'26 Oral Project Lead arxiv:2511.23369

SimScale: Learning to Drive via Real-World Simulation at Scale

Haochen Tian, Tianyu Li, Haochen Liu, Jiazhi Yang, et al.

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CVPR'26 Project Lead arxiv:2601.12901

PlannerRFT: Reinforcing Diffusion Planners through Closed-Loop and Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Hongchen Li, Tianyu Li, Jiazhi Yang, Haochen Tian, et al.

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TPAMI'26 arxiv:2506.09800

Reinforced Refinement with Self-Aware Expansion for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Haochen Liu, Tianyu Li, Haohan Yang, Li Chen, et al.

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ECCV'26 Project Lead arxiv:2512.07661

Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Interactive Scene Generation

Shihao Li, Naisheng Ye, Tianyu Li, Kashyap Chitta, et al.

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arXiv arxiv:2601.05611

FLARE: Learning Future-Aware Latent Representations from Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Chengen Xie, Chonghao Sima, Tianyu Li, Bin Sun, Junjie Wu, Zhihui Hao, Hongyang Li

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CoRL'25 Co-First Author arxiv:2506.04218

Pseudo-Simulation for Autonomous Driving

Wei Cao, Marcel Hallgarten, Tianyu Li, et al.

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arXiv arxiv:2503.12552

MTGS: Multi-Traversal Gaussian Splatting

Tianyu Li, Yihang Qiu, Zhenhua Wu, et al.

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NeurIPS'24 arxiv:2406.15349

NAVSIM: Data-Driven Non-Reactive Autonomous Vehicle Simulation and Benchmarking

Daniel Dauner, Marcel Hallgarten, Tianyu Li, et al.

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NeurIPS'25 arxiv:2505.17771

TopoPoint: Enhance Topology Reasoning via Endpoint Detection in Autonomous Driving

Yanping Fu, Xinyuan Liu, Tianyu Li, et al.

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ICLR'24 arxiv:2312.16108

LaneSegNet: Map Learning with Lane Segment Perception for Autonomous Driving

Tianyu Li, Peijing Jia, Bangjun Wang, et al.

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NeurIPS'23 Co-First Author arxiv:2304.10440

OpenLane-V2: A Topology Reasoning Benchmark for Unified 3D HD Mapping

Huijie Wang, Tianyu Li, Yang Li, et al.

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SCIS'26 arxiv:2304.05277

Graph-based Topology Reasoning for Driving Scenes

Tianyu Li, Li Chen, Huijie Wang, et al.

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PRCV'24 Co-First Author arxiv:2303.10340

3D Data Augmentation for Driving Scenes on Camera

Wenwen Tong, Jiangwei Xie, Tianyu Li, et al.

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ICCV'25 arxiv:2504.10485

Decoupled Diffusion Sparks Adaptive Scene Generation

Yunsong Zhou, Naisheng Ye, William Ljungbergh, Tianyu Li, et al.

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CVPR'24 Highlight arxiv:2403.09630

Generalized Predictive Model for Autonomous Driving

Jiazhi Yang, Shenyuan Gao, Yihang Qiu, Li Chen, Tianyu Li, et al.

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ECCV'24 arxiv:2312.17118

Fully Sparse 3D Occupancy Prediction

Haisong Liu, Yang Chen, Haiguang Wang, Zetong Yang, Tianyu Li, et al.

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ECCV'24 arxiv:2403.04593

Embodied Understanding of Driving Scenarios

Yunsong Zhou, Linyan Huang, Qingwen Bu, Jia Zeng, Tianyu Li, et al.

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Academic Service

Reviewer

Journals

Nature Science Robotics IEEE TPAMI

Conferences

CVPRICCVECCV NeurIPSICMLICLRAAAI

Organizer

2025
Autonomous Grand Challenge @ ICCV & CVPR 2025
2024
Autonomous Grand Challenge @ CVPR'24
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Get in Touch

We're hiring at Archon Robotics. If you're passionate about building Physical AI, Whole-Body Intelligence, and Humanoids, I'd love to hear from you — reach out at careers@archon.tech. Always open to research collaborations and discussions, too.

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