Wenkai Guo

Wenkai Guo (郭文锴)

Hi! I'm currently a PhD student in PINE Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) 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. My research goal is to build trustworthy robot intelligence. Specifically, my attention is caught by: 1. Simple solution for complex problems; 2. Scalability in depth and width.

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Taken in Wien, 2026

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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

	REMA: Efficient Online Robotic Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Manifold Alignment Wenkai Guo, Peizhi Tang, Yukun Bai, Ziming Yan, Haoyuan Deng, Guanxing Lu, Shijie Li, Ziwei Wang IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026 project page / IEEE Xplore / arXiv (coming soon) / code (coming soon)
	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 / code
	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: ICLR, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, ICCV, AAAI

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