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EDUCATION

• B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Tong Class, Yuanpei College, Peking University (Expected Jun. 2028)

• Visiting Student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2024–2026)
  Supported by the Jardine Scholarship.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Robot Learning
• Dexterous Manipulation
• Multimodal Perception (Visual, Tactile, and Beyond)
• Tool Design and Tool-use

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• The Movement Lab @ Stanford, advised by Dr. Karen Liu from Computer Science Department at Stanford University (2026 – )

• PKU CoRe Lab, advised by Dr. Yixin Zhu from PKU Institute for AI (2024 – )

PUBLICATIONS

• HOT: Robot Tool Design from Scratch via Behavior-Aware Hierarchical Optimization
  arXiv preprint, 2026
  Yinghan Chen^*, Xiyao Tian^*, Yizan Dai, Yuyang Li, Yixin Zhu

• Simultaneous Tactile-Visual Perception for Learning Multimodal Robot Manipulation
  Accepted to RA-L 2026
  Runner-up Award, R:SS 2026 Workshop on Tactile Sensing for Robotic Foundation Models
  Yuyang Li^*, Yinghan Chen^*, Zihang Zhao, Puhao Li, Tengyu Liu, Siyuan Huang, Yixin Zhu

• ControlVLA: Few-shot Object-centric Adaptation for Pre-trained Vision-Language-Action Models
  Accepted to CoRL 2025, and Robot Learning Workshop @ ICLR 2025
  Puhao Li, Yingying Wu, Ziheng Xi, Wanlin Li, Yuzhe Huang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yinghan Chen, Jianan Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Tengyu Liu, Siyuan Huang

• Ag2x2: Robust Agent-Agnostic Visual Representations for Zero-Shot Bimanual Manipulation
  Accepted to IROS 2025, oral presentation
  Ziyin Xiong^*, Yinghan Chen^*, Puhao Li, Yixin Zhu, Tengyu Liu, Siyuan Huang

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Runner-up Award for TacThru, R:SS 2026 Workshop on Tactile Sensing for Robotic Foundation Models (2026)
• Dean’s Scholarship (Special Award), Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University (2026)
• Academic Rising Star Award, Yuanpei College, Peking University (2026)
• Beijing Natural Science Foundation “Qiyan” Undergraduate Research Grant (2026)
• Soong Ching-ling Scholarship (2025)
• Jardine Scholarship (2024)
• Mingde Scholarship (2023)
• First prize in China region, Honorable Award in the worldwide final in S.-T Yau High School Science Award (2022)
• Finalist representative in the International Science & Engineering Fair (2022)
• China Youth Science & Technology Innovation Award (2022)
• First prize in China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest (2022)
• First prize in the China’s Mathematical Modelling Scheme (2021)
• 6th place in the Amazon AWS DeepRacer Unmanned Vehicle League in China (2021)
• First prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (2018)
• First prize in the 19th Beijing Adolescent Robotics Competition (2018)