About

Hi, I’m Shengliang Deng. I’m a Ph.D. student at The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Heming Cui. I received my B.Eng. degree from The University of Science and Technology of China.

I enjoy tackling challenges and difficulties. My academic journey began with a focus on robotic systems and networking. However, as time passed, I came to realize that the major roadblocks of contemporary robotics arise from algorithms and engineering practices. Therefore, I paused my Ph.D. study during 2023 to gain a deeper understanding of real-world problems, through industry internships in Momenta and TuSimple, and had a wonderful engineering journey.

In early 2024, I was privileged to start collaborating with esteemed researchers from Galbot and BAAI on building generalizable vision-language-action models (VLAs). Our goal is to develop generalizable skills and embodied models to facilitate embodied AGI.

Publications

• ZETA: A Controlled Study of Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment VLA Transfer for Tabletop Manipulation (arxiv | website)

  Mi Yan*, Wenhao Zhang*, Zhiqi Zhang*, Yu Peng*, Tangxinyu Wang*, Lingfei Zhai, Jiayi Su, Shengliang Deng, Lin Peng, Yaowei Liu, Yuxing Chen, Zhiyuan Wei, Jilong Wang, Jiayi Chen, Jiangran Lyu, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang

  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

• StereoVLA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Stereo Vision (paper | code | website)

  Shengliang Deng*, Mi Yan*, Yixin Zheng*, Jiayi Su, Wenhao Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhao, Heming Cui, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang

  Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2026

• GIF: Agentic Generation of Interactive and Functional Object Compositions for Robot Learning (paper | website)

  Long Xu*, Zhiqi Zhang*, Mi Yan*, Shengliang Deng, Chong Xia, Mingyu Dong, Jiayi Chen, Jiangran Lyu, Fei Gao, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang

  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

• Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds (arxiv | code | website)

  Xianzhe Fan, Shengliang Deng, Xiaoyang Wu, Yuxiang Lu, Zhuoling Li, Mi Yan, Yujia Zhang, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang, Hengshuang Zhao

  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

• GraspVLA: a Grasping Foundation Model Pre-trained on Billion-scale Synthetic Action Data (paper | arxiv | code | website)

  Shengliang Deng*, Mi Yan*, Songlin Wei, Haixin Ma, Yuxin Yang, Jiayi Chen, Zhiqi Zhang, Taoyu Yang, Xuheng Zhang, Heming Cui, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang

  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025

• ROG: A High Performance and Robust Distributed Training System for Robotic IoT (paper | code)

  Xiuxian Guan, Zekai Sun, Shengliang Deng, Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Zongyuan Zhang, Tianyang Duan, Yuexuan Wang, Chenshu Wu, Yong Cui, Libo Zhang, Yanjun Wu, Rui Wang, Heming Cui

  International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022

• COORP: Satisfying Low-Latency and High-Throughput Requirements of Wireless Network for Coordinated Robotic Learning (paper | code)

  Shengliang Deng, Xiuxian Guan, Zekai Sun, Shixiong Zhao, Tianxiang Shen, Xusheng Chen, Tianyang Duan, Yuexuan Wang, Jia Pan, Yanjun Wu, Libo Zhang, Heming Cui

  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022