CV

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Education

• Jul. 2026 ~ Present: Research Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
  • Advisor: Prof. Yao Mu, ScaleLab
• Jul. 2025 ~ Aug. 2025: Student Summer Research Fellowship Program, The University of Chicago
  • Advisor: Prof. Ken Nakagaki, AxLab
• Sep. 2022 ~ Jun. 2026: School of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  • Major: Electronic Information Engineering
  • Overall GPA: 4.03/4.3 Ranking: 1/149
  • Standardized Test: TOEFL: 6.0 (Reading: 6.0, Listening: 6.0, Speaking: 5.5, Writing: 5.5)
• Aug. 2020 ~ Aug. 2022: The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University

Publications

SP-HLM: Sparse-Pose-Driven Motion Generation and Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Zhaohui Yang*, Quanbao Lin, Chengqi Shi, Zhenglang Weng, Jicheng Lin, Boyu Chen, Tengjie Zhu, Guanzhu Ren, Jiahao Xu, Yang Feng, Xiaokang Yang, Yao Mu

Submitted to ICRA 2027

• Optimized the end-to-end humanoid loco-manipulation pipeline with TensorRT, accelerating VLA inference to 25 Hz and whole-body motion generation to 10 Hz for real-time execution.
• Adapted and debugged the HumanoidArena benchmark for SP-HLM, migrated simulation environments, and trained task-specific policies for humanoid loco-manipulation evaluation.
• Collaborated on Unitree G1 real-world deployment, including robot data collection, system integration, and physical loco-manipulation experiments.

Project Website

TorquePods: Multi-Module Coordinated Flywheel-based Haptic Toolkit for Advanced Haptic Design

Advisor: Prof. Ken Nakagaki
In Preparation, Aug. 2025

• Elaborated a compact, custom PCB for a novel modular haptic interface system based on flywheel actuation
• Implemented Bluetooth communication protocol for low-latency control of the module
• Derived theoretical force-torque transformation formulas and implemented real-time measurement for technical evaluation using a 6-DOF Force/Torque sensor.

Mass.mov: Towards Movement-based Interactive Material using ‘Mass with Constraints’

Advisor: Prof. Ken Nakagaki
In Preparation, Aug. 2025

• set up a closed-loop control motor system with FOC (Field Oriented Control) for the projects technical evaluation
• fine-tuned a PID algorithm that allowed for precise control and testing of the motion-based mechanism.

Project Experience

Robotic Manipulation via Video Generation and 6D Pose Tracking

Undergraduate Graduation Thesis | Advisor: Prof. Jiahu Qin — USTC
Oct. 2025 – May 2026

• Enabled zero-shot manipulation of objects through a video-to-action pipeline by extracting 6D trajectories of target objects from generated videos.
• Integrated Kling-v3.0 video generation, Grounded-SAM instance segmentation, and RGBTrack 6D pose tracking to extract object motion trajectories from generated manipulation videos.
• Deployed the full pipeline on a 7-DoF OpenArm robotic arm and evaluated it on various manipulation tasks.

Wordle Game Solver Utilizing Information Theory .pdf

Advisor: Prof. Chen Gong
Course Project for Information Theory, Jun. 2025

• Formed rigorous mathematical formulations of the rules and game-solving algorith.
• Designed a Wordle game solver based on information entropy.
• Formulated a funtional explanation for the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KL Divergence).

A Software Defined Radio System for 5G PUSCH

Advisor: Prof. Wuyang Zhou, Prof. Puhua Zhang
Course Project for Principles of Communications, Dec. 2024

• Accomplished modules using MATLAB, including QAM, Scrambling/Descrambling, OFDM, CRC, Channel Estimation.
• Constructed a simulated channel using MATLAB and a real channel using an RF antenna.
• Validated the code operation through various channels, focusing on Error Correction, Channel Estimation, and Equalization.

Simplified 8-bit CPU Based on FPGA

Advisor: Prof. Xiaowen Liang
Course Project for Electronic System Design, Nov. 2024

• Designed an 8-bit Instruction Set of basic operations, including move, jump, basic computation, condition, immediate number.
• Implemented the self-designed Instruction Set using Verilog HDL, and verified the basic function of the CPU using peripheral interfaces on an experiment circuit board.

Automatic Routing Gluttonous Snake Program Based on BFS Algorithm

Advisor: Dr. Linlin Qin Course Project for Computer Programming A, Nov. 2022

• Designed and implemented a program of the classical game Gluttonous Snake.
• Established a program that can automatically lead the snake to eat most of the apples without dying, using the basic algorithm of Breadth First Search (BFS).

Honors and Awards

• Nov. 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship-Gold Prize (Top 3%), USTC
• Nov. 2023 Scholarship Issued by JAC&NIO Enterprise (Top 2%, 5000 CNY), USTC
• Dec. 2023 CUMCM (Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling) (1st in Anhui Province, Second Prize National), China
• Nov. 2023 Robogame Robot Championship (Second Prize), USTC

Skills

• Programming Language: C, C++, MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, Verilog HDL
• Software: Sketchpad, GeoGebra, SolidWorks, Fusion360, ArduinoIDE, PlatformIO, Markdown, LaTeX
• Hardware: Heat gun, Soldering station, 3D Printer, PPG, EDFA, Optical Attenuator, Optical Fibre

Leadership and Extracurricular Activities

• Class Representative for Academics
• Member of the USTC Ballroom Dance Association
• Volunteer of the USTC Science and Technology Opening Week (2023&2024)