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: I develop adaptive robotic systems that enable autonomous, flexible, and scalable assembly of complex objects. My work spans task and motion planning, policy learning, physics-based simulation, and sim-to-real for precise manipulation.
🔬 Accelerating experimental science via efficient optimization: I develop foundational and classical optimizers that combine probabilistic modeling with exploration to discover better physical structures, materials, robot designs, controllers, and beyond, with minimal experiments.
Outside research, I am a picky foodie spoiled by my wife, who knows how to cook everything.
Robotics
Planning, Manipulation, RL
Machine Learning
BayesOpt, Foundation Models
Computer Graphics
Physics Simulation, CAD
PhD in Computer Science, 2019 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS in Computer Science, 2019 - 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BEng in Software Engineering, 2015 - 2019
Nankai University
Conference Reviewer: SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS
Journal Reviewer: RA-L, TVCG, TEVC, Soft Computing, TMLR
Workshop Organizer: CoRL 2024 Robotic Assembly Workshop
Invited Talks:
Teaching and Mentoring: