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Biography
I am Huailiang Ma, a combined M.S.-Ph.D. student at Southeast University, jointly trained with Shanghai Innovation Institute. My research focuses on embodied intelligence and robotics, with recent interests in world models, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, robot data generation, and manipulation learning.
I received my Bachelor’s degree from the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. My undergraduate advisor was Prof. Guoteng Zhang. My graduate advisors are Prof. Aiguo Song and Prof. Lifeng Zhu.
Education
- 2024 - Present, Combined M.S.-Ph.D. student, Southeast University
Jointly trained with Shanghai Innovation Institute. Research direction: embodied intelligence and robotics. - 2020 - 2024, B.Eng., Shandong University
School of Control Science and Engineering, majoring in Automation.
Research Interests
- Embodied intelligence and robot learning
- World models and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
- Imitation learning and robot data generation
- Robotic teleoperation and dexterous manipulation
- Humanoid robot odometry and control
Selected Publications

Ma, H., Song, A., He, M., Yan, Y., Li, M., Wei, L., et al.
AutoTrialGen: Automated Data Generation from Few Human Demonstrations via Trajectory Annotation and Simulation Trials.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025. Accepted.

Ma, H., Song, A., Xu, B., et al.
SkillComposer: Automated Segmentation and Robot Skill Composition for Scalable Data Generation.
International Conference on Bio-inspired System and Robotics (ICBSR 2025), 2025. Accepted.

Ma, H., Song, A., Li, J., Zhang, G., et al.
Legged Odometry Based on Fusion of Leg Kinematics and IMU Information in a Humanoid Robot.
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2024. Accepted.

He, M., Song, A., Yan, Y., Ma, H., et al.
A Multimodal Shared Telerobotic System of Three-arm Space Robot for Extravehicular Activities.
Proceedings of the 23rd IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA 2025), Harbin, China, 2025. Accepted.
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Contact
I welcome conversations about embodied intelligence, world models, VLA models, robot data generation, teleoperation, and dexterous manipulation.
Email: huailiangma@163.com