ZX Zhihao Xia

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Zhihao Xia 夏志豪

Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering

Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. Dan Zhang

Zhihao Xia works at the intersection of AI for Science and robotics. Zhihao Xia received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Fudan University in June 2026.

Current research spans scientific AI agents, large language model post-training, and embodied intelligence, building on work in generalized parallel mechanisms and learning-based mechanism synthesis.

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zhihao.xia@polyu.edu.hk

News

  • Zhihao Xia's paper Differentiable Kinematics for Analysis and Gradient-Based Design of Generalized Parallel Mechanisms was accepted for publication in Mechanism and Machine Theory.

  • Zhihao Xia's paper Physically Aware Generative Design for Spatial Mechanism Synthesis: A Differentiable Diffusion-Refinement Framework was accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

  • Zhihao Xia joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Postdoctoral Fellow, supervised by Prof. Dan Zhang.

  • Zhihao Xia successfully passed the Ph.D. dissertation defense at Fudan University on June 2, 2026 (photos).

  • Zhihao Xia's Mechanism and Machine Theory paper Mapping Mechanical Synthesis to a Trainable Task was featured by Fudan University.

  • Zhihao Xia was recognized as a 2026 Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (certificate).

Earlier news

  • Zhihao Xia's paper on mapping mechanical synthesis to a trainable task was published in Mechanism and Machine Theory.

  • Zhihao Xia was awarded the National Scholarship for doctoral students (certificate).

  • Zhihao Xia's review on generalized parallel mechanisms was published in Mechanism and Machine Theory.

  • Zhihao Xia's paper on decoupled generalized parallel mechanisms based on motion transmission was published in Mechanism and Machine Theory.

  • Zhihao Xia participated in the Guanghua-1 humanoid robot project, which was presented at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and covered by Fudan News.

  • Zhihao Xia started Ph.D. study in Computer Science and Technology at Fudan University.