I am Haotian Liu (刘灏天), a PhD student at McGill University since 2026 Fall. I received my Master’s degree from Tongji University, advised by Prof. Xianzhong Zhao, and my bachelor’s degree with honors from Hefei University of Technology.

My research interest includes Embodied Intelligence and Robotic construction.

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🔥 News

• 2026.05:  🎉🎉 Our new paper has been accepted by Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
• 2025.04:  🎉🎉 Our new paper has been accepted by Automation in Construction.

📝 Publications

RCIM 2026

A domain-informed learning framework for seam extraction in robotic welding: Generalizing to unseen seam topologies from unstructured workpieces

Xianzhong Zhao, Haotian Liu, Zhaoqi Huang, Yuzhen He

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Project

AIC 2025

Self-adaptive seam detection framework for unmanned structural steel welding robots in unstructured environments

Yuzhen He, Zhaoqi Huang, Haotian Liu, Jingang Ye, Yujie Lu, Xianzhong Zhao

Automation in Construction

Project

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2019-2021 National Scholarship (top1%, highest scholarship) (×3).
• 2022 First Prize, 3th International Engineering Mechanics Contest (Asian Region)
• 2022 First Prize, 5th Anhui Undergraduate Building Information Modeling Application Competition
• 2022 Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province & Outstanding Graduate of HFUT.
• 2019-2021 First Prize, HFUT Outstanding Student Scholarship (×3)

📖 Educations

• 2022.09 - 2025.07, Tongji University (Master) , advised by Xianzhong Zhao.
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Hefei University of Technology (Bachelor).

💻 Internships

• 2022.12 - 2023.07, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, China.