Zhiwen (Calvin) Qiu

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by Saleh Kalantari, with committee members Kuan Fang and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee. I design and evaluate embodied systems that perceive, interact, and learn from the physical world, from robot bimanual dexterous manipulation to data-automation pipelines, with applications in assistive and home robotics and healthcare. Previously, I received a Master of Architecture from UCLA and a B.S. in Architecture from Georgia Tech, and worked as a UX designer at Kuaishou Technology.

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News

Research

Effect-Guided Hierarchical Generation for Stateful Articulated Interaction

Zhiwen Qiu, Diyu Zhou, Wenqian Niu, Jialin Wu, Daisy Lin, Rosita Ji, Saleh Kalantari

In progress

Generates full-body human interaction with articulated objects from language, predicting the intended state change, enforcing it during generation, and verifying the result.

Coming soon

DexTele: Teleoperation with Physics-informed Contact Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation

Zhiwen Qiu, Qi Wu, Saleh Kalantari, Kuan Fang

In progress

A VR-based teleoperation platform for dexterous manipulation that uses physics-informed contact modeling to gather scalable, high-fidelity training data for robot learning.

Coming soon

Other Publications

Design

Selected UX and architecture work.