Title: Assistant Professor, Researcher, PhD Supervisor
Tel: 0755-26038480
Office: Room A315, Peking University Campus, University Town of Xili, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Email: liumengyuan@pku.edu.cn
Lab Website:https://robotics.pkusz.edu.cn/person/teachers/刘梦源/
Research Interests: Embodied Intelligence, Robotic Perception and Manipulation, Human Motion Analysis
Publications:
The applicant has published 47 first-author or corresponding-author papers in leading international journals such as TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TMM, and PR, as well as top conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, and NeurIPS, among which 34 are CCF-A ranked journal/conference papers. According to Google Scholar, the total citation count exceeds 6,000. In particular, one first-author paper published in Pattern Recognition has received over 990 citations. According to the Scopus database, among 6,722 papers published in Pattern Recognition since its publication, this paper ranks first globally in citation count within the field of human motion analysis.
Funded Projects (Principal Investigator / Project Lead):
2026–2029, Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars Program, Principal Investigator
2024–2027, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission Excellent Young Scholars Program, Principal Investigator
2025–2028, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Principal Investigator
2023–2025, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund), Principal Investigator
2025–2027, National Key R&D Program of China (Key Special Project on “Intelligent Robotics”), Project Leader
2025–2028, Guangdong Provincial Flagship Project on Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence, Project Leader
Honors and Awards:
2024, First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award (Provincial/Ministerial Level)
2023, First Prize of Shenzhen Natural Science Award (Provincial/Ministerial Level)
2021, Outstanding Science and Technology Worker of Shenzhen
2021, Champion, ACM Multimedia (ACMMM) Grand Challenge
2024, Double Champion, IEEE ICME Grand Challenge
2025, Best Reviewer Award, Cyborg and Bionic Systems (a Science Partner Journal)
2025, Best Paper Award, Chinese Conference on Intelligent Automation
2025, Best Student Paper Award, Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology
Academic Appointments:
2025–Present, Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
2025–Present, Editorial Board Member, Pattern Recognition (PR)
2023–Present, Young Editorial Board Member, Cyborg and Bionic Systems (a Science Partner Journal)
2025–Present, Young Editorial Board Member, CAAI Transactions on Robotics, Intelligence and Technology (CAAI TRIT)
2023–Present, Deputy Secretary-General, Technical Committee on Intelligent Robots, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
2026–Present, Deputy Secretary-General, Youth Working Committee, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
2023–Present, Secretary-General, Technical Committee on Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen Institute of Electronics
Prospective Students:
Majors in Intelligent Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Information, Automation, or related fields
Strong abilities in programming, mathematics, and English (evidenced by competitions, certificates, or standardized tests)
Good self-discipline and long-term commitment (demonstrated through academic or research experience)
Applicants with research experience and outstanding achievements in the following research areas may be considered with flexible requirements
Research Topics:
Robotic Perception: Human motion perception, 3D semantic mapping
Robot Navigation: Zero-shot object navigation, self-localization, navigation map construction
Robot Manipulation: Human motion imitation, object affordance understanding, vision-language-action (VLA) models
Robotic Systems: Model lightweighting, deployment on embedded platforms, virtual human–robot interaction
Recruitment Message:
Each year, I admit 3–6 Master’s/PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and I continuously welcome motivated undergraduate students (from the second year and above) to participate in remote internships. Enabling robots to understand humans, imitate humans, and ultimately serve humans has always been my long-term pursuit. I look forward to welcoming outstanding students who share this vision and demonstrate resilience and perseverance. Feel free to reach out via email at any time. Please briefly describe how you match the recruitment expectations, your unique strengths, and the research topics you are interested in pursuing. I am always happy to hear from you—looking forward to your message!
