Haitao Gao

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, working in the field of geometric robotics, supervised by Professor Leo Wu. My Ph.D. is supported by the UNSW TFS Scholarship.

I received my Master of Information Technology from UNSW, where I worked on my thesis with Professor Scott Sisson, Dr. Boris Beranger, and Dr. Peng Zhong about extreme value theory. I received my B.E. from Hangzhou Dianzi University, supervised by Professor Chunshan Liu.

Goal: Understand Robotics better

Research Interest: Mathematics, Algorithm and Robotics

Research Question: Solve robotic problems with mathematical tools

Email: haitao.gao [AT] unsw.edu.au

News

[Jun 25, 2026] Workshop paper accepted at RSS 2026 Workshop "Bridging AI and Robotics: Towards Safer and Smarter Surgery".
[Jul 13, 2026] Will attend RSS 2026 (Robotics: Science and Systems).
[Jun 3, 2026] Paper accepted at Advanced Science — Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning with Edge-Contour-Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation.
[May 12, 2026] Percolation paper submitted to Physical Review E. arXiv
[May 5, 2026] Paper accepted at ICRA Workshop on Medical Robotics 2026 — anatomical-landmark-guided DRL for gastric navigation. arXiv

Selected Publications — full list

Approximating High Dimensional Self-Motion Manifolds via Deep Generative Models

Haitao Gao, Yang Song, Liao Wu

arXiv preprint, 2026

arXiv

Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning with Edge-Contour-Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation

Haoxuan Wu, Haitao Gao, Qingyang Liu, Sishen Yuan, Haiyang Fang, Mingwu Su, Baijia Liang, Yongzun Yang, Long Bai, Wenzhen Dong, Dihong Xie, Shijian Su, Jiewen Lai, Shing Shin Cheng, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren

Advanced Science, 2026

Published

Percolation Critical Probability of Aperiodic Smith Hat Tile(1, √3)

Haitao Gao, Aaryash Bharadwaj

Physical Review E [Under Review]

arXiv

Education

2025–2029 Ph.D. Candidate, University of New South Wales
2023–2025 Master of Information Technology, University of New South Wales
2019–2023 Bachelor of Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University

Honors & Awards

UNSW TFS Scholarship — University of New South Wales, 2025
2nd Place, AWS Hackathon — 2024
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award — Hangzhou Dianzi University, 2023
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Full Marks) — Hangzhou Dianzi University, 2023
Undergraduate Scholarship ×7 — Hangzhou Dianzi University, 2020–2023

Haitao Gao

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