Jianuo Cao Jianuo Cao's name in Chinese

Pronounced roughly “jyah-nwoh tsow” (“tsow” rhymes with “cow”).

Hi, I am Jianuo Cao. I am an undergraduate student (Sep. 2023 - Present) majoring in Intelligence Science and Technology at Nanjing University, where I am fortunate to work closely with Prof. Lan-Zhe Guo and Prof. Jieqi Shi. I was also a Visiting Student Researcher at the ME Department in UC Berkeley, supervised by Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka and Prof. Koushil Sreenath.

I maintain the leading academic standing in my department (GPA: 94/100, Rank: 1/151) and am a recipient of the National Scholarship. Additionally, my work in mathematical modeling has been recognized with the MCM Finalist Award (Top 2% globally) and the CUMCM National First Prize.

My research aims to develop generalizable embodied intelligence, bridging high-level reasoning and robust physical interaction.

  • Whole-Body Control & Dexterous Manipulation: Reinforcement learning, motion generation, and contact-rich loco-manipulation.
  • Robot Foundation Models & Embodied Agents: Vision–language–action and behavior foundation models for generalist control, long-horizon planning, and adaptation through interaction.

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Recent News

  • [09/2026] One paper was accepted by CoRL 2026!
  • [02/2026] One paper FormalML regarding formal subgoal completion was accepted by ICLR 2026!
  • [11/2025] Our research project on edge-deployable bimanual manipulation using VLA models winning the National Second Prize in the 2025 "Challenge Cup" Academic Competition!
  • [10/2025] One paper was accepted by the NeurIPS 2025 Math Workshop.
  • [06/2025] I will join the MSC Lab at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Student Researcher (VSR), working on humanoid whole-body control under the supervision of Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka.

Academic Paper

TwoGether cooperative humanoid transportation

TwoGether: Closed-Loop Planning and Control for Cooperative Humanoid Transportation
Jianuo Cao, Chen Fang*, Tianyang Tang*, Xuerong Liu, Huayi Wang, Jinrui Han, Kaixuan Wang, Peng Lu, Ping Luo
Under Review

TEXEDO: Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen*, Yuzhen Song, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenran Li, Thomas Tian
Accepted by RSS WCBM Workshop
Accepted by CoRL 2026

CLAW whole-body motion generation

CLAW: Composable Language-Annotated Whole-body Motion Generation
Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen*, Masayoshi Tomizuka
arXiv, 2026

FormalML formal subgoal completion examples

FormalML: A Benchmark for Evaluating Formal Subgoal Completion in Machine Learning Theory
Xiao-Wen Yang, Zihao Zhang*, Jianuo Cao, Zhi Zhou, Zenan Li, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yuan Yao, Taolue Chen, Yu-Feng Li, Xiaoxing Ma
Accepted by ICLR 2026


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Honors and Awards

  • SenseTime Scholarship Nomination 2026
  • Yan Bao Scholarship 2025
  • MCM Finalist Award (Top 2% globally), Mathematical Contest in Modeling of America 2025
  • National Second Prize, "Challenge Cup" National College Student Academic Competition 2025
  • National Scholarship (the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in China) 2024
  • National First Prize (Top 1% nationwide), China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2024
  • First-Class Scholarship for Research Project in Computer Vision 2024

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