I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, in the PhysAI Lab, supervised by Prof. Peter Yichen Chen.
Before UBC I took my Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, in the Creative Machines Lab with Jiong Lin and Prof. Hod Lipson, on recovering physical parameters of deformable bodies from video. Before that I built magnetic wire-guiding robots for minimally invasive surgery at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Dong Wang.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science — University of British Columbia Sep 2026 – Present · PhysAI Lab, supervised by Prof. Peter Yichen Chen
M.S., Mechanical Engineering (Robotics & Control) — Columbia University Sep 2024 – May 2026
B.S., Mechanical Engineering — Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sep 2020 – Jun 2024 · Double major in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Experience
Doctoral Researcher — PhysAI Lab, University of British Columbia Sep 2026 – Present Physical AI and simulation.
Graduate Researcher — Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University Mar 2025 – May 2026 Advised by Jiong Lin and Prof. Hod Lipson. Soft-body parameter estimation from video.
Undergraduate Researcher — Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sep 2023 – Jul 2024 Advised by Prof. Dong Wang. Magnetic guidewire robots.
Vision Algorithm Intern — Shanghai ABB Engineering Co., Ltd Jun 2023 – Sep 2023 Computer vision for industrial robotic inspection.
Toolbox
Physical AI & Simulation — Real2Sim · World Models · Differentiable Simulation · MuJoCo · Evolution Gym
Learning & Vision — PyTorch · Reinforcement Learning · Video Transformers · 3D Vision · VLM Agents
Robotics & Control — Inverse Kinematics · Gait Planning · Cosserat-Rod Modeling · ROS · SolidWorks