Honors and Awards

2024
  • IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics, Best Paper Award
2022
  • Third Prize of National Outstanding Graduation Design
  • Outstanding Graduate of SJTU
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship from SJTU
2021
  • National Schaolarships for Students from Taiwan, HongKong, Macao and Overseas Chinese - Special Award
    Highest Level, Top 0.19%, the only one in SJTU
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship from SJTU
2020
  • National Schaolarships for Students from Taiwan, HongKong, Macao and Overseas Chinese - Special Award
    Highest Level, Top 0.19%, the only one in SJTU
2019
  • BaoSteel Scholarship
    Top 0.25%, the only one in School of Mechanical Engineering, one of only two recipients in SJTU
  • Bronze Prize of China Student Education Support Award

Academic Services

Reviewer
  • 8 manuscripts.
    Robotics: T-RO (2), ICRA (4), RAL (1), CASE (1)
Workshop/Seminar Organizer
  • Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation, ICRA 2025
  • Robotics Seminar @ Illinois, 2025-present

Education

  • Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL), 2024-present
    GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

  • M.S.E. in Robotics, University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, PA), 2022-2024
    GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

  • B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China), 2018-2022
    GPA: 3.9 / 4.0, Ranking: 1 / 219 in ME department
    Minor: B.BA. in Business Administration, Operation Research Track

Coursework

Gradute Courese

Core Courses

  • CS 598SHW 3-D Vision (A+)
  • CS 598RM Robot Manipulation (A+)
  • CS 598KKH Advanced Computation Topics in Robotics (A)
  • ECE 598ZZ Generative Modelling with Diffusion and Flow Matching Models (A)
  • CS 450 Numerical Analysis (A)

  • CIS 519 Applied Machine Learning (A+)
  • CIS 580 Machine Perception (A+)
  • ESE 605 Modern Convex Optimization (A+)
  • MEAM 620 Advanced Robotics (A+)
  • MEAM 517 Control and Optimization with Applications in Robotics (A)
  • ESE 619 Model Predictive Control (A)
  • CIS 680 Advanced Machine Perception (A)
  • CIS 700 Vision-based Robot Learning (A)
  • CIS 700 Advanced Topics in Geometric Deep Learning (A)

Auditing Courses

  • CIS 610 Advanced Geometric Methods In Computer Science
  • MATH 600 Topology and Geometric Analysis
  • MATH 608 Real and Functional Analysis
Undergradute Courese

Selected Core Courses

  • ME 385 Robotics (A+)
  • ME 391 Numerical Methods in Engineering (A+)
  • ME 452 Multi-Robot System and Control (A+)
  • ME 374 Machinery Dynamics (A)
  • ME 454 Humanoid Robotics and Artificial Intellengence (A)

Auditing Graduete-level Courses

  • MATH 6005 Matrix Theory
  • MATH 6004 Numerical Analysis