GAO, Ziyan Research Assistant Professor
Information Science, Human Information Science
◆Professional Experience
2025 - : Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , School of Information Science , Research Assistant Professor
2025 - 2025 : Ritsumeikan University , School of Information Science & Engineering , Senior Researcher
2022 - 2025 : Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , School of Information Science , Post-Doctoral Researcher
◆Specialties
Intelligent robotics, Robotics and intelligent systems
◆Research Keywords
Robotic bin packing, Multimodal learning, Vision-based robotic control, Machine learning for robotics, Data-driven robotic grasping, Object physical parameter estimation, Robotic manipulation, Non-prehensile manipulation

■Publications

◆Published Papers
Decoupled Object-Centric Video Understanding for Generating Robotic Manipulation Commands
T. N. Canh, T. T. Tran, H. Zhang, Z. Gao, X. HoangVan, N. Y. Chong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.16470, -, 2026
Human-to-Robot Interaction: Learning from Video Demonstration for Robot Imitation
T. N. Canh, T. T. Tran, H. Zhang, Z. Gao, N. Y. Chong, X. HoangVan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19184, -, 2026
Online 3D Bin Packing with Fast Stability Validation and Stable Rearrangement Planning
Z. Gao, L. Wang, Y. Kong, N. Y. Chong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09123, -, 2025
BERP: A blind estimator of room parameters for single-channel noisy speech signals
L. Wang, Y. Lu, Z. Gao, K. Li, J. Huang, Y. Kong, S. Okada
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 33, 2215-2231, 2025
Hierarchical Motion Field Alignment for Robust Optical Flow Estimation
D. Ma, K. Imamura, Z. Gao, X. Wang, S. Yamane
Sensors, 25, 9, 2653-, 2025

■Contributions to  Society

◆Academic Contribution
Associate Editor, The 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024) , The 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024) , 2024

■Academic  Awards

・ Best Paper Award , Z. Gao, A. Elibol, N. Y. Chong , Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) , 2023