Jiahui(Jim) Yang

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Hi! I'm Jim, a graduate researcher in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Deepak Pathak and Prof. Ruslan Salakhutdinov.

Prior to CMU, I worked closely with Prof. Kevin Chen at MIT, Prof. Wenzeng Zhang at Tsinghua University (now at X-Institute), and Prof. Wei Zhang at SUSTech.

I'm broadly interested in robotics and AI, with a focus on leveraging large-scale simulation to advance data-driven learning for robotics. My current work draws on imitation and reinforcement learning, with applications in motion planning and dexterous manipulation. Ultimately, I aim to move towards general-purpose robot agents that can be deployed in the real-world.

Feel free to contact me via email! You can reach me at jiahuiya -at- andrew dot cmu dot edu

News

[09/2025] I am applying for PhD for Fall 2026.
[08/2025] DRP is accepted to CoRL 2025.
[06/2025] Neural MP is accepted to IROS 2025.
[09/2024] We demoed Neural MP and Bidex to the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, while he was visiting CMU!
[08/2023] Joined CMU RI as a graduate student.
[06/2023] Completed my bachelor's degree at SUSTech! I was awarded as the Top 10 Summa Cum Laude Graduates in the college of engineering!
[06/2022] Finished a wonderful year at MIT as an exchange student.

Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

	Deep Reactive Policy: Learning Reactive Manipulator Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments Jiahui Yang, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Yulong Li, Youssef Khaky, Kenneth Shaw, Deepak Pathak Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025 paper \| website \| code
	Neural MP: A Generalist Neural Motion Planner Murtaza Dalal, Jiahui Yang, Russell Mendonca, Youssef Khaky, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Deepak Pathak International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025 (Oral) paper \| website \| code
	Bimanual Dexterity for Complex Tasks Kenneth Shaw, Yulong Li, Jiahui Yang, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Ray Liu, Haoyu Xiong, Russell Mendonca†, Deepak Pathak† Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 paper \| website \| hardware \| software
	A lightweight high-voltage boost circuit for soft-actuated micro-aerial-robots Zhijian Ren, Jiahui Yang, Suhan Kim, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao, Jeffrey Lang, Yufeng Chen International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 paper
	Coordinated Defense Allocation in Reach-Avoid Scenarios with Efficient Online Optimization Junwei Liu, Zikai Ouyang, Jiahui Yang, Hua Chen, Haibo Lu, Wei Zhang arXiv, 2023 paper
	Parallel connecting rod mode switching parallel clamp coupling self-adaptive robot finger device Jiahui Yang, Wenzeng Zhang China Invention Patent CN113954111B, 2022 paper \| certificate

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