Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

A Tsinghua University institute led by Andrew Yao, and one of China's key sources of embodied-AI talent and startups.

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) was founded at Tsinghua University in 2011 and is led by Turing Award winner Andrew Yao; the “Yao Class,” an elite computer-science undergraduate program he started in 2005, is also part of the institute. Its research and teaching span computer science, quantum information, and artificial intelligence. In recent years it has become a major source of embodied-AI work in China: several of its younger faculty work on robot learning, reinforcement learning, and autonomous driving, and have published results such as 3D Diffusion Policy (DP3); the founding teams of embodied-AI companies including RobotEra, Galaxea AI, and Spirit AI all include IIIS faculty. When a paper lists “Tsinghua IIIS” as an affiliation, this is the institute it means.

Example3D Diffusion Policy (DP3, 2024) was proposed by Huazhe Xu's group at Tsinghua IIIS together with the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute and others; its diffusion policy takes point-cloud input and can learn manipulation from only a small number of demonstrations.

Also called

Tsinghua IIIS, IIIS

Related

Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute · RobotEra · Galaxea AI · Spirit AI · 3D Diffusion Policy

Sources

IIIS Introduction - Tsinghua University

As of

2025-12