Lucas (Zekai) Liang

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Lucas (Zekai) Liang

I'm a PhD student at University of California, San Diego, advised by Prof. Michael Yip. Prior to that, I received a M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree at UCSD and a B.S in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

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Research

My research interests lie in robotics and computer vision, with a focus on Robot state estimation, 3D Reconstruction, and Humanoid Laparoscopy. In my free time, I enjoy gym, films, cooking, and traveling.

	BASED: Bundle-Adjusting Surgical Endoscopic Dynamic Video Reconstruction using Neural Radiance Fields Shreya Saha, Zekai Liang, Shan Lin, Jingpei Lu, Michael Yip, Sainan Liu IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025 [paper]
	LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar, Sreyan Das, Zoe Chiu, Peihan Zhang, Florian Richter, Shanglei Liu, Michael C Yip IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 [paper]
	Differentiable rendering-based pose estimation for surgical robotic instruments Zekai Liang, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Michael C Yip IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025 [paper]
	Efficient Surgical Robotic Instrument Pose Reconstruction in Real World Conditions Using Unified Feature Detection Zekai Liang, Kazuya Miyata, Xiao Liang, Florian Richter, Michael C Yip IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 [paper]
	Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter, Michael C Yip IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 [paper]
	CtRNet-X: Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation in Real-world Conditions Using a Single Camera Jingpei Lu, Zekai Liang, Tristin Xie, Florian Richter, Shan Lin, Sainan Liu, Michael C Yip IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 [paper]