About me
Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I’m a first year PhD student of Stanford Aero-Astro Department, supervised by Dr. Mac Schwager. Previous to that, I was a research assistant at UIUC-ACRL working with Dr. Naira Hovakimyan and Dr. Sheng Cheng.
I also spent time at Unitree, Centrillion working as robotics engineering/research intern.
My interests and background are across robot VLA model, world model, autonomous robot visual navigation, and legged robot locomotion.
I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from both Zhejiang University and UIUC in 2023. I received my Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2025.
My Curriculum Vitae can be found here (updated Aug. 2025).
Feel free to contact me via email, linkedin (both on the side bar) or add my WeChat: CQZ_David.
Recent news
- 2025/08: Our new paper ARCH on RL for manipulations has been accepted to CoRL 2025!
- 2025/08: Our new paper ParticleFormer on 3D world model for manipulations has been accepted to CoRL 2025!
- 2025/06: Our new paper GRaD-Nav on drone end-to-end visual navigation has been accepted to IROS 2025!
- 2025/06: Our new paper DiffTune-HECTOR on auto-tuning bipedal robots MPC controllers has been accepted to IROS 2025!
- 2025/04: I was admitted to the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Stanford University as a PhD student, supervised by Dr. Mac Schwager.
Honors and awards
- Stanford Aero-Astro PhD Fellowship (2025)
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University (2023)
- First Class Academic Scholarship of ZJU-UIUC Institute (Top 1%) (2022)
Service
- Journal Articles Reviewer: RA-L (2025)
- Conference Reviewer: IROS (2025)
- Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society