Wenkai Guo (郭文锴)

Hi! I'm currently a first-year PhD student in PINE Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Professor Wang Ziwei.

Previously, I graduated as a MSc from NTU. I received my BEng in School of Automation at Southeast University, supervised by Professor Li Shihua, Professor Du Songlin, and Professor Wang Yangang.

My research interests lie in robotic foundation models and reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation. My research goal is to build trustworthy robot intelligence that can continuously learn, self-evolve, and assist humans reliably in open, dynamic real-world environments.

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Taken in Wien, 2026

News

[2026-06] One paper is accepted to IROS 2026 and one paper is accepted to RA-L 2026.
[2026-01] Two papers are accepted to ICRA 2026.
[2026-01] Start my PhD study at NTU.
[2025-10] Lead the team to get the 2nd place in Challenge of Multimodal Robot Learning in InternUtopia and Real World and 1st place in simulation stage at IROS 2025.
[2025-08] Graduate from NTU as a Master of Science.
[2025-08] One paper is accepted to CoRL 2025.
[2024-06] Graduate from Southeast University as a Bachelor of Engineering.

Recent Works

	VLA-RL: Towards Masterful and General Robotic Manipulation with Scalable Reinforcement Learning Guanxing Lu, Wenkai Guo, Chubin Zhang, Yuheng Zhou, Haonan Jiang, Zifeng Gao, Yansong Tang, Ziwei Wang IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 project page / arXiv / code
	VLA-Reasoner: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with Reasoning via Online Monte Carlo Tree Search Wenkai Guo, Guanxing Lu, Haoyuan Deng, Zhenyu Wu, Yansong Tang, Ziwei Wang IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 project page / arXiv /
	Map-VLA: Memory-Augmented Prompting for Vision-Language-Action Model in Robotic Manipulation Runhao Li, Wenkai Guo, Zhenyu Wu, Changyuan Wang, Haoyuan Deng, Zhenyu Weng, Yap-Peng Tan, Ziwei Wang IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 project page / arXiv
	SafeBimanual: Diffusion-based Trajectory Optimization for Safe Bimanual Manipulation Haoyuan Deng, Wenkai Guo, Qianzhun Wang, Zhenyu Wu, Ziwei Wang 9th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025 project page / arXiv

Academic Services

Journal Reviewer: RA-L

Conference Reviewer: ICCV, AAAI

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Last updated: February 2026.