Scholar
Jialiang (Alan) Zhao
Google Scholar ID: LaW7igYAAAAJ
PhD student @ MIT CSAIL
Citations & Impact
Citations
392
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
19
Co-authors
2
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025 Sept: Fabrica won the Best Paper Award at CoRL 2025! 2025 Sept: Fabrica selected as a Best Paper Award Finalist at CoRL 2025! 2025 Aug: Fabrica accepted to CoRL 2025! 2025 May: PolyTouch won the Best Paper Award in Field and Service Robotics at ICRA 2025! 2025 Feb: Defended PhD thesis and graduated from MIT, now working on building general purpose physically grounded AI for humanoid robots at 1X Technologies. 2024 Sept: Heterogeneous Pre-trained Transformers (HPT) accepted as a NeurIPS 24 spotlight paper! 2024 Sept: Transferable Tactile Transformers (T3) accepted to CoRL 24! 2024 Aug: Wrapped up internship with the Large Behavior Models team at Toyota Research Institute. 2024 May: Published a new paper on a foundational framework for camera-based tactile sensing and contact-aware manipulation T3! 2024 Jan: PoCo accepted to RSS 2024! 2023 Oct: GelSight Svelte nominated for the Best Overall Paper Award at IROS 2023! 2023 May: FingerSLAM presented at ICRA in London. 2023 May: Passed qualification exam, officially a PhD candidate.
Research Experience
- 2025 - Present: Working at 1X Technologies on general purpose physically grounded AI for humanoid robots. 2022 - 2025: PhD at MIT CSAIL and MechE, focusing on contact-aware robotic manipulation and robot learning. 2024 Summer: Intern at Toyota Research Institute, working on multi-modal sensing and foundational models. 2021 - 2022: Worked on planning & prediction for self-driving cars at Nuro Inc. 2018 - 2020: Master in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on robot learning for manipulation. 2017 - 2018: Undergraduate researcher at UC Berkeley HART Lab, worked on building & optimizing exoskeletons.
Education
- PhD: MIT CSAIL, Advisor: Prof. Edward H. Adelson; Collaborated with: Prof. Russ Tedrake, Prof. Kaiming He; Master's: The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Advisor: Prof. Oliver Kroemer; Undergraduate Research: UC Berkeley HART Lab, Advisor: Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy.
Background
- Research Interests: Robotics and AI. Professional Field: General physically grounded AI, contact-aware robotic manipulation, and robot learning. Bio: Teaches artificial beings to think and behave, fast and slow.
Miscellany
- Enjoys software and hardware robotics DIY projects outside of work and school. Recently started filming some hardware DIYs and sharing them on YouTube channel Crafted by JZ and BiliBili channel 试作间. Currently working on an ambitious software project called tpvortex.org.
