Hi!! I am a final-year undergraduate student at Tsinghua University. I am currently a visiting researcher at Harvard, advised by Prof. Yilun Du. I was fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Gao Huang, Dr. Jiangmiao Pang and Prof. Guanya Shi throughout my undergraduate studies.

I want to fundamentally understand how human intelligence works and how we can build machines that learn and think like humans. To this end, I aim to work on general-purpose decision-making agents that can interact, learn, and adapt in our complex physical world. I see robotics as an ideal testbed for such agents, as it requires the deep integration of perception, reasoning, and action in the real world. I draw inspiration from cognitive neuroscience and philosophical perspectives on knowledge and mind in my research.

Beyond my research interests, I am also passionate about liberal arts, history, and sociology. I've been playing the piano for about ten years and am a big fan of Western classical music, with Beethoven and Mahler being my favorite. I also enjoy traveling and photography.

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Gao Jiawei 「髙 嘉偉」

TLDR: ASAP enables agile, whole-body humanoid motion control by using data to align simulation with real-world physics.

TLDR: CooHOI is a framework for cooperative object transportation tasks involving multiple humanoid characters, inspired by how humans learn to collaborate through implicit communication.

TLDR: HIMLoco enables quadruped robots to adapt to various terrains by learning to estimate environmental disturbances online both explicitly and implicitly.

TLDR: FamO2O is a framework for offline-to-online reinforcement learning algorithms that determines state-adaptive improvement-constraint balances.

HumanoidVerse supports multiple simulators and tasks for humanoid robot sim-to-real learning. A key design philosophy is the separation and modularization of simulators, tasks, and algorithms, allowing for conviniently switching between simulators and tasks, and develop new ones with minimal efforts.

OpenDA is a platform for students to share their notes, experiences, insights, and advice from the courses they took during their undergraduate studies. We hope this can help bridge the "information gap" in undergraduate studies and promote greater educational equity.

In high school, I competed in the Physics Olympiad because I've always loved how physics helps us understand the world in a deeper and more fundamental way. I'm also really interested in cognitive science and psychology--they're great for learning more about who we are, as humans, and I am so curious about how our mind learns so much from so little.

I believe that curiosity, resilience, and the unwavering pursuit of self-emancipation are among the most precious qualities of humanity. I strongly favor the quotes by Max Weber: "Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word."

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