Zhiwen (Calvin) Qiu
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by Professor , with committee members Professor and Professor Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee. I design embodied systems that perceive, interact, and learn from physical world for home and assistive robotics. I also develop VR-based dexterous manipulation platforms for scalable robot training data collection.
I received a Master in Architecture from UCLA and B.S. in Architecture from Georgia Tech. I also worked as a UX designer at Kuaishou Technology, where I led the research and design of multiple digital advertising platforms.
News
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[June 25] Our paper "DiffCogNav: diffusion-based trajectory planning agent for cognitively-aware human navigation behavior" is published at CVPR 2025 Workshop on Agent in Interaction, from Humans to Robots
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[Jul 25] Our systematic review paper "Large language model integrations in cancer decision-making: a systematic review and
meta-analysis" is published at npj Digital Medicine -
[Apr 25] Our poster "AdaTAMP: adaptive task and motion planning with LLM-based embodied agents. " is published at ICRA '25 Workshop on Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning
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[Oct 24] Our paper "EncoreLife: a gamified platform to enhance older adults' social connections and daily life structure during transition to retirement" is published at CHI PLAY 2024
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[Jun 24] Our paper "NavMarkAR: a landmark-based augmented reality (AR) wayfinding system for enhancing older adults’ spatial learning" is accepted at Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics
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[May 24] Presented at CHI '24 poster session for DentAR project
Research
EgoCogNav: Cognition-aware Human Egocentric Navigation
Zhiwen Qiu, Ziang Liu, Wenqian Niu, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Saleh Kalantari. Under Reivew, 2025
A multimodal egocentric navigation framework that jointly forecasts human trajectories, head motion and cognitive states from first-person video and multimodal sensory cues.
DexTele: Teleoperation with Physics-informed Contact Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Zhiwen Qiu, Qi Wu, Saleh Kalantari, Kuan Fang.
Work in Progress
Coming soon!
Developing a VR-based teleoperation platform for dexterous manipulation that leverages physics-informed contact modeling to gather scalable, high-fidelity training data for robot learning.
Large Language Model Integrations in Cancer Decision-making: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Yuexing Hao, Zhiwen Qiu, Jason Holmes, Corinna E. Löckenhoff, Wei Liu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Saleh Kalantari
npj Digital Medicine, 2025
This systematic review of 56 studies finds that LLMs are used in oncology to summarize and communicate cancer information, but need better clinical readiness, safety evaluation, and datasets for standardized assessments.
Armin Mostafavi*, Zhiwen Qiu*, Wenqian Niu, Tong Bill Xu, Saleh Kalantari (*Equal Contribution)
Under Reivew, 2025
Coming soon!
This study comprehensively evaluates the trade-offs in spatial learning, wayfinding performance, cybersickness, and presence of controller-based VLTs in virtual indoor environments.
Zhiwen Qiu, Mojtaba Ashour, Xiaohe Zhou, Saleh Kalantari
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024
NavMarkAR is an app aiming to improve older adults' wayfinding efficiency and their spatial learning capabilities in navigating complex indoor environments.
Serena Guo, Zhiwen Qiu
Extended Abstracts of CHI, 2024
AR system that improves social comfort of dental visits for individuals with autism that adapt to their specific needs of sensory processing disorder.
Zhiwen Qiu, Hsin-Ming Chao, Mengye Zhu, Chaoyu Wang, Saleh Kalantari
CHI PLAY Companion, 2024
EncorLife is a gamified platform to assist older adults in making the transition to retirement, featuring collaborative local activities, digital social interactions, and a reminder system.
Zhiwen Qiu, Armin Mostafavi, Saleh Kalantari
Virtual Reality, 2025
This systematic review of 65 studies explores AR navigation technologies in human wayfinding, revealing their potential in user experience, wayfinding performance and cognitive map development.
Design Projects
Generate realistic head animations from human facial expressions
#GenAI, #Face Mapping, 2023
An environment to manipulate daytime experiences for people with SAD
#Ambient Environment, 2022
#UX Design for AI, 2021
