Xu Huazhe

Xu Huazhe is a tenure-track assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, where he leads the Tsinghua Embodied AI Lab (TEA Lab). He is the founder and CEO of PoKe Robotics, a company focused on home embodied intelligence, which he established in March 2026 after previously serving as co-founder and chief scientist at Xinghaitu. He is known in the embodied AI community as one of the "Berkeley returnees," having earned his PhD from Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) under Trevor Darrell and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Vision and Learning Lab.