I am a final-year PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik, pushing the boundaries of robotics and scientific discovery. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Nankai University, and have interned at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Autodesk Research, HKU, and MSR Asia. My research focuses on:

• 🛠 Scalable robotic assembly of general objects: Industrial assembly lines are rigid, task-specific, and require significant human effort. I develop adaptive robotic systems that enable autonomous, flexible, and scalable assembly of complex products. My work spans task and motion planning, policy learning, physics-based simulation, and real hardware implementation.

• 🔬 Accelerating experimental science via efficient optimization: Scientific discovery is often constrained by costly and lengthy experiments. I develop foundational and classical optimizers that combine probabilistic modeling with principled exploration to discover better physical structures, materials, robot designs, controllers, and beyond, with minimal experiments.

I am on the job market for research scientist/engineer positions tackling ambitious challenges.