Wei-Cheng Huang (黃韋程)

This is Wei-Cheng (Rory) Huang. I am currently a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science working on Robotics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am interested in robotic manipulation, especially in scenarios where robots need to frequently interact with the surrounding environment, utilizing contact interactions to achieve diverse manipulation skiils. Therefore, I hope to leverage tools and techniques in physics models, numerical optimization and machine learning to develop principle-based approaches, for perception and planning under hybrid and multi-modal contact dynamics. I am currently working in the Intelligent Motion Lab (IML) and advised by Professor Kris Hauser.

Before joining UIUC, I obtained my Master of Science in Engineering degree in Robotics from the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, at the University of Pennsylvania. I was fortunate to be a member of Dynamic Autonomy and Intelligent Robotics (DAIR) Lab and advised by Professor Michael Posa. I conducted research project focusing on physics-based hybrid residual learning, and real-time adaptive contact-implicit model predictive control for robotic manipulation.