* From Simple to Complex Skills: The Case of In-Hand Object Reorientation
* Learning Visuotactile Skills with Two Multifingered Hands
* Learning In-Hand Translation Using Tactile Skin With Shear and Normal Force Sensing
* Hand-Object Interaction Pretraining from Videos
* Lessons from Learning to Spin “Pens”
* Twisting Lids Off with Two Hands
* Neural feels with Neural Fields: Visuo-tactile Perception for In-Hand Manipulation
* Digitizing Touch with an Artificial Multimodal Fingertip
- Organized workshops:
* Dexterous Manipulation: Learning and Control with Diverse Modalities (CoRL 2025)
* Dexterous Manipulation: Learning and Control with Diverse Data (RSS 2025)
* Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands (ICRA 2025)
* Touch Processing: From Data to Knowledge (NeurIPS 2024)
* Learning Robot Fine and Dexterous Manipulation (CoRL 2024)
* Dexterous Manipulation: Design, Perception and Control (RSS 2024)
* Touch Processing: a new Sensing Modality for AI (NeurIPS 2023)
Research Experience
- Research Scientist at Meta FAIR
- Incoming Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UChicago
Education
- Ph.D.: UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Yi Ma and Prof. Jitendra Malik
- Bachelor's degree: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Chi-Keung Tang
- Worked at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) for two years, working on computer vision with Dr. Jifeng Dai and Dr. Yichen Wei
Background
Research Interests: robot learning, computer vision, and tactile sensing. Personal Background: Research Scientist at Meta FAIR, and an incoming Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UChicago.
Miscellany
Looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students to join his group, application deadline is December 11.