Tairan He
Scholar

Tairan He

Google Scholar ID: TVWH2U8AAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University
RoboticsReinforcement LearningRobot LearningImitation Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
930
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
20
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Invited talk on Scalable Sim-to-Real Learning for General-Purpose Humanoid Skills at GRASP SFI Seminar in Sep 2025; Passed PhD Thesis Proposal in Aug 2025; Hosted WhynotTV Podcast in Jul 2025; Received NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship in Dec 2024; Received CMU RI Presidential Fellowship in Nov 2024; ABS selected as Outstanding Student Paper Award Finalist at RSS 2024 in Jul 2024; Invited talk on Bridging safety, agility and generalization for learning-based robotic control at TechBeat in Apr 2024; Published papers: HDMI: Learning Interactive Humanoid Whole-Body Control from Human Videos, FALCON: Learning Force-Adaptive Humanoid Loco-Manipulation.
Research Experience
  • Member of NVIDIA GEAR group led by Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu; Worked at Microsoft Research Asia.
Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Weinan Zhang; Third-year Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Guanya Shi and Changliu Liu.
Background
  • Research Interest: Robotics, large-scale machine learning, and general-purpose loco-manipulation; Goal: Robots that improve everyone's life.
Miscellany
  • Loves working on humanoids and aims to make them capable of doing everything he can do—and more.