Scholar
Jie Wang
Google Scholar ID: MDrLWmIAAAAJ
MSRobotics, UPenn
Citations & Impact
Citations
18
H-index
3
i10-index
0
Publications
5
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: NeurIPS 2025, AAWR: Real-World Reinforcement Learning of Interactive Perception Behaviors; CoRL 2025, RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies (Oral Presentation); Blog: Evaluating pi0 in the Wild: Strengths, Problems, and the Future of Generalist Robot Policies; Awards: ZeroMimic wins best paper in CVPR2025 3DVLMs workshop!
Research Experience
- Fall 2025 - Present, Graduate Research Assistant, Daniilidis Research Group, GRASP Lab, Advisor: Prof. Kostas Daniilidis, Improving spatial reasoning of VLAs like Pi05 via reinforcement learning; Summer 2025, Research Intern, Dyna Robotics, Advisor: Jason Ma && York Yang, Building an embodied reasoning VLA for fine-grained manipulation tasks; Fall 2024 - Present, Graduate Research Assistant, PennPAL Research Group, GRASP Lab, Advisor: Prof. Dinesh Jayaraman, Building VLMs-based Manipulation System via Diffusion Policy for fine-grained tasks; Summer 2024, Multimodal MLE Intern, IDEA-Computer Vision & Robotics Department, Advisor: Dr. Xiaoke Jiang & Prof. Lei Zhang, Built, trained, and optimized a small human-centric video captioning model based on Grounding DINO 1.6Pro.
Education
- 2024—Present, University of Pennsylvania, M.S.E. in Robotics, Advisor: Prof. Dinesh Jayaraman; 2020—2024, Zhejiang University, B.E. in Electronic and Computer Engineering; 2020—2024, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S. in Computer Engineering, Advisor: Prof. Said Mikki, Thesis: Intelligent Pour-Over Coffee Machine.
Background
- Research interests include VLAs, embodied reasoning, and robot learning. Passionate about building generalizable agents capable of fine-grained manipulation, such as making a cup of latte with an espresso machine.
Miscellany
- Other activities include representing MSROBO at CIS Department Meeting, joining GRASP Student, Faculty and Industry (SFI) Committee Meeting, and participating in various academic events.
