Haonan Chen
Scholar

Haonan Chen

Google Scholar ID: SomOgNIAAAAJ
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
RoboticsMachine LearningHuman-Robot Interaction
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published several papers such as 'Multi-Modal Manipulation via Multi-Modal Policy Consensus' and 'Tool-as-Interface: Learning Robot Policies from Observing Human Tool Use.' Won Best Paper Award at ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics and Best Presentation Award at CSL Student Conference 2025.
Research Experience
  • Gave talks at multiple labs, including Computational Robotics Lab at Harvard, Professor Jiajun Wu's Lab at Stanford, Professor Animashree Anandkumar's Lab at Caltech, and more.
Education
  • Postdoc at Harvard, advised by Yilun Du; Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Katie Driggs-Campbell and worked closely with Yunzhu Li.
Background
  • Research Interests: Composable multimodal robot learning, focusing on robotic manipulation. Develops structured models that help robots reason about the physical world and learn from heterogeneous data sources, including simulation, teleoperation, human video, and off-policy data.
Miscellany
  • Actively seeking collaborations in composable robot learning, multi-modal manipulation, and learning from heterogeneous data sources. Dedicating 30 minutes each week to chat with junior PhD/master/undergraduate students about life, career plans, or research ideas in ML/robotics.