Hi!! I am a final-year undergraduate student at Tsinghua University. I was fortunate to work with Prof. Gao Huang, Dr. Jiangmiao Pang, Prof. Guanya Shi and Prof. Yilun Du throughout my undergraduate studies.

I want to fundamentally understand how intelligence works and how we can build machines that learn and think like humans. To this end, I aim to work on general-purpose decision-making agents that can interact, learn, and adapt in our complex physical world.

Beyond my research interests, I am also passionate about liberal arts, philosophy, history, and sociology. I’ve been playing the piano for about ten years and am a big fan of Western classical music, with Beethoven and Mahler being my favorite. I also enjoy traveling and photography.

I am applying for a PhD position in 2026 Fall. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research or just want to chat!

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Gao Jiawei 「髙 嘉偉」

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My research focuses on building general-purpose robot learning systems. I draw inspiration from how humans learn many skills efficiently, improve themselves autonomously, and cooperate and interact with one another effectively.

One direction I am particularly interested in is the internal model in the cerebellum, which acts as a “world model” of body and environmental dynamics, enabling predictive motor control. Inspired by this, in the ASAP and IMPACT projects, we let the robots learn internal models of themselves and object dynamics. This enables agile whole-body skills for humanoid robots and adaptive manipulation under forceful interactions.

I believe future AI systems will resemble a Society of Minds. Therefore, I am interested in designing protocols and algorithms that allow multi-agent AI systems to communicate and cooperate effectively. In the CooHOI project, we study how multiple humanoid robots can collaborate on object-carrying tasks, and explore the principles of scalable embodied cooperation.

Projects


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HumanoidVerse: A Multi-Simulator Framework for Humanoid Robot Sim-to-Real Learning

Co-Founder, Team-lead and Core Contributor.

HumanoidVerse is the codebase infrastructure for humanoid robot sim-to-real learning. It enabled expressive motion-tracking policy training on humanoid robots and helped drive the rapid progress seen in 2025.

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OpenDA Project: An Open-Source Platform for Coursework and Experiences for Tsinghua University Undergrads

Founder, Team-lead and Core Contributor.

OpenDA is a platform for students to share notes, experiences, insights, and advice from courses taken during undergraduate studies. The goal is to reduce information gaps and promote greater educational equity.

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Art of Mo Yu

The Course of "Introduction to the Art of Mo Yu"

Founder.

In 2021, after realizing that anyone could launch their own course use the “Cloud Classroom” technology, I decided—half seriously, half jokingly—to create one at Tsinghua University titled Introduction to the Art of Mo Yu, where “Mo Yu” is a Chinese slang term which basically means trying to have some fun despite a mountain of work. I framed it as a Dionysian rebellion against modern capitalist productivity—a Chaplinesque attempt to remain human within the gears of the machine. I later wrote a post explaining the motivation behind the course, and it quickly went viral. The original post and related coverage accumulated over 90 million views, and the topic remained trending No.1 on Chinese social media platform Zhihu for an entire week.

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Miscellaneous


In high school, I competed in the Physics Olympiad because I’ve always loved how physics helps us understand the world in a deeper and more fundamental way. I’m also really interested in cognitive science and psychology—they’re great for learning more about who we are, as humans, and I am so curious about how our mind learns so much from so little.

I believe that “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all”. I agree with Max Weber that “Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word.”

Updated at February 2026.