About me

Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I’m a second year Master’s student at Stanford studying Mechanical Engineering. Currently, I am a research assistant at Stanford-MSL working with Dr. Mac Schwager. Previous to that, I was a research assistant at UIUC-ACRL working with Dr. Naira Hovakimyan and Dr. Sheng Cheng. My interests and background are across robot VLA model, learning based control, autonomy robot visual navigation, and embodied AI. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from both Zhejiang University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023.

My Curriculum Vitae can be found here (updated April 2025).

Recent news

• 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.
• 2024/06: I started a new role as robotics algorithm engineer at Centrillion Technologies, focusing on building LLM-driven mobile manipulation robot for bio-science lab experiments assistance.

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 2%) (2022)

Service

• Conference Reviewer: IROS (2025)
• Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society