Runpei DONG | |
Ph.D. student,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Desk: RM 108, CSL
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I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Prof. Saurabh Gupta. Prior to this, I got my MS degree in Computer Science through a joint training at Xi'an Jiaotong University & IIIS, Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew C. Yao. I was fortunate to collaborate closely with Prof. Kaisheng Ma and Prof. Li Yi. Research | News | Publications | Software | Honors | Service |
Research
I enjoy working on interesting and cool things that fascinate me, and I am currently trying to build scalable, generalizable & human-centered robotic and vision models. I am enthusiastic about contributing to the research community and I support Slow Science. I am currently working in several main areas:
- Legged Robot Learning including (mainly) humanoid and quadruped robots
- Robot Learning from Demonstrations including human videos and mocap data
Other areas of work recently and in the past include:
- Foundation & Generative models
- Visual representation learning
Recent News
- [2024/08] Join 🐿️UIUC CS for a PhD journey!
- [2024/05] I will be attending ICLR 2024 in person, see you in 🇦🇹Austria!
- [2024/05] Invited talk on 3D foundation models for embodied intelligence at Peking University.
- [2023/11] Honorably selected as NeurIPS 2023 Top Reviewer.
- [2023/09] Invited talk on multimodal foundation models at IIIS, Tsinghua University and XJTU.
- [2023/04] I will be attending ICLR 2023 in person, see you in 🇷🇼Rwanda!
- [2023/03] Invited talk on 3D representation learning at IIIS, Tsinghua University.
Publications
*: Equal contribution. †: Project leader. See also my Google Scholar profile for the most recent publications.
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