Tao Pu 蒲韬

R&D Director at X-Era Lab ↗

Be the bridge.
Between silicon intelligence
and carbon-based life.

Tao Pu outdoors

News

01 / WHAT I WORK ON

From models to the real world.

01

Foundation
Models

Building models that understand, reason about, and interact with the physical world.

MODELS & LEARNING
02

Agent
Systems

Building the system layer that turns foundation models into reliable physical agents.

HARNESS & INFRASTRUCTURE
03

Real-world
Applications

Bringing physical agents into real-world scenarios, from prototypes to scalable deployment.

APPLICATIONS & DEPLOYMENT

SELECTED WORK · AGENT SYSTEMS

PhyAgentOS

A self-evolving operating system
for physical agents.

Decoupling cognitive planning from physical execution, with scheduling, verification, memory, and learning as system-level services.

Project ↗Paper ↗Code ↗

02 / EXPERIENCE

Industry

DEC 2025 CURRENT ROLE

R&D Director · X-Era Lab ↗

Foundation models and RSI harnesses for embodied AI.

Earlier experience

2019–2022

Research Intern · DMAI Lab ↗

Data-efficient learning for large-scale visual perception systems.

03 / BACKGROUND

Education

Peking University emblem

Peking University

Joint doctoral training at CoRe Lab.

Supervised by Prof. Yixin Zhu.

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Sun Yat-sen University

Ph.D. at HCP Lab, supervised by Prof. Liang Lin. 2020–2025

B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology. 2016–2020

Publications ↗Google Scholar ↗
Selected research
Honors & awards
  • 2024中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划（首批）
  • 2024Graduate National Scholarship (博士研究生国家奖学金)
  • 2024广东省计算机学会优秀论文一等奖
  • 2018Undergraduate National Scholarship (本科生国家奖学金)
Academic service

Conference reviewer
CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, ACM MM, AAAI

Journal reviewer
TPAMI, TNNLS, TKDE, TOMM, TCSVT