About Me

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS) at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yang Gao. During my Ph.D., I was fortunate to visit Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), advised by Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Dr. Xingyu Lin. I also worked closely with Prof. Dinesh Jayaraman at UPenn GRASP lab. Prior to that, I received my bachelor degree from EE Department in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Ya Zhang and Prof. Xinbing Wang.

My research interest focuses on Embodied AI in general. My goal is to achieve generalist robots with advanced system, hardware, and algorithms.

Recruitment

Welcome highly self-motivated Ph.D. candidates, Master students, and undergraduate interns to join our lab. If you are interested, please feel free to send me your resume and transcript via email.

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Publications

ImageImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning
Wendi Chen, Han Xue, Yi Wang, Fangyuan Zhou, Jun Lv, Yang Jin, Shirun Tang, Chuan Wen‡, Cewu Lu‡.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageARMADA: Autonomous Online Failure Detection and Human Shared Control Empower Scalable Real-world Deployment and Adaptation
Wenye Yu, Jun Lv, Zixi Ying, Yang Jin, Chuan Wen‡, Cewu Lu‡.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv
Best Paper Award at IROS 2025 Human-in-the-loop Workshop

ImageTimeRewarder: Learning Dense Reward from Passive Videos via Frame-wise Temporal Distance
Yuyang Liu*, Chuan Wen*, Yihang Hu, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yang Gao.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageSOE: Sample-Efficient Robot Policy Self-Improvement via On-Manifold Exploration
Yang Jin, Jun Lv, Han Xue, Wendi Chen, Chuan Wen‡, Cewu Lu‡.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageMotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
Chengbo Yuan, Rui Zhou, Mengzhen Liu, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Li Yi, Chuan Wen, Shanghang Zhang, Yang Gao.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageFP3: A 3D Foundation Policy for Robotic Manipulation
Rujia Yang*, Geng Chen*, Chuan Wen‡, Yang Gao‡.
Preprint   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageEfficientVLA: Training-Free Acceleration and Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yantai Yang, Yuhao Wang, Zichen Wen, Luo Zhongwei, Chang Zou, Zhipeng Zhang, Chuan Wen‡, Linfeng Zhang‡.
NeurIPS 2025   PDF/Arxiv

ImageKineDex: Learning Tactile-Informed Visuomotor Policies via Kinesthetic Teaching for Dexterous Manipulation
Di Zhang, Chengbo Yuan, Chuan Wen, Hai Zhang, Junqiao Zhao, Yang Gao.
CoRL 2025   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageData Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Fanqi Lin, Yingdong Hu, Pingyue Sheng, Chuan Wen, Jiacheng You, Yang Gao.
ICLR 2025   PDF/Website/Arxiv
Best Paper Award at CoRL 2024 X-Embodiment Workshop

ImageGeneral Flow as Foundation Affordance for Scalable Robot Learning
Chengbo Yuan, Chuan Wen, Tong Zhang, Yang Gao.
CoRL 2024   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageAny-point Trajectory Modeling for Policy Learning
Chuan Wen*, Xingyu Lin*, John So*, Kai Chen, Qi Dou, Yang Gao, Pieter Abbeel.
RSS 2024   PDF/Website/Arxiv/Code

ImageCan Transformers Capture Spatial Relations between Objects?
Chuan Wen, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yang Gao.
ICLR 2024   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageImitation Learning from Observation with Automatic Discount Scheduling
Yuyang Liu*, Weijun Dong*, Yingdong Hu, Chuan Wen, Zhaoheng Yin, Chongjie Zhang, Yang Gao.
ICLR 2024   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageSeer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models
Xianfan Gu, Chuan Wen, Jiaming Song, Yang Gao.
ICLR 2024   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImagePredictive Inference with Feature Conformal Prediction
Jiaye Teng*, Chuan Wen*, Dinghuai Zhang*, Yoshua Bengio, Yang Gao, Yang Yuan.
ICLR 2023   PDF/Code

ImageResolving Copycat Problems in Visual Imitation Learning via Residual Action Prediction
Chia-Chi Chuang*, Donglin Yang*, Chuan Wen*, Yang Gao.
ECCV 2022   PDF/Code

ImageFighting Fire with Fire: Avoiding DNN Shortcuts through Priming
Chuan Wen, Jianing Qian, Jierui Lin, Jiaye Teng, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yang Gao.
ICML 2022   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageKeyframe-Focused Visual Imitation Learning
Chuan Wen*, Jierui Lin*, Jianing Qian, Yang Gao, Dinesh Jayaraman.
ICML 2021   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageFighting Copycat Agents in Behavioral Cloning from Observation Histories
Chuan Wen*, Jierui Lin*, Trevor Darrell, Dinesh Jayaraman, Yang Gao.
NeurIPS 2020   PDF/Website/Arxiv

ImageHandwritten Chinese font generation with collaborative stroke refinement
Chuan Wen, Yujie Pan, Jie Chang, Ya Zhang, Siheng Chen, Yanfeng Wang, Mei Han, Qi Tian.
WACV 2021   PDF/Arxiv

ImageAuthor name disambiguation on heterogeneous information network with adversarial representation learning
Haiwen Wang, Ruijie Wang, Chuan Wen, Shuhao Li, Yuting Jia, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang.
AAAI 2020   PDF/Arxiv

ImageRI-SSGE: a framework with rule inference and sentence schema graph embedding for knowledge base query construction
Xiaoyang Huo, Chuan Wen, Yuchen Yan, Ruijie Wang.
TURC 2019   PDF

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