Elvis Hsieh

I am a fourth-year undergraduate studying Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley.

I am interested in sequential decision-making, AI safety, and embodied AI focusing on humanoid robots and dexterous manipulation. I do research at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, where I'm advised by Trevor Darrell and Koushil Sreenath.

Previously, I had the previlege to work at the Center for Human-Compatible AI and VLL at National Taiwan University. I spent the past summer at WorldQuant researching US equities as a Quantitative Research Intern.

I am looking for Ph.D. opportunities for Fall 2026.

Research

Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills from Imperfect Simulations
Elvis Hsieh*, Wen-Han Hsieh*, Yen-Jen Wang*, Toru Lin, Jitendra Malik, Koushil Sreenath†, Haozhi Qi†
Tech Report, Dec 2025
Website | Code | TLDR

	Do What? Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models to Reject the Impossible Wen-Han Hsieh, Elvis Hsieh, Dantong Niu, Trevor Darrell, Roei Herzig, David M. Chan EMNLP Findings 2025 Website
	LLaMP: Large Language Model Made Powerful for High-fidelity Materials Knowledge Retrieval and Distillation Yuan Chiang, Elvis Hsieh, Chia-Hong Chou, Janosh Riebesell EMNLP Main 2025 Code
	Reasoning and Tools for Human-Level Forecasting Elvis Hsieh, Preston Fu, Jonathan Chen* MATH-AI@NeurIPS 2024
	A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks Alexandra Souly, Qingyuan Lu, Dillon Bowen, Tu Trinh†, Elvis Hsieh†, Sana Pandey, Pieter Abbeel, Justin Svegliato, Scott Emmons, Olivia Watkins, Sam Toyer NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2024* Code \| Documentation \| OpenAI o1 eval

Misc

I play tennis, basketball, table tennis, and poker.