SIRUI CHEN’s CV

Research experience

Summer 2024: Research Intern

Honda Research Institute
Duties include: Research dexterous tool manipulation with tactile sensing.

Fall 2021 to Summer 2022: Undergraduate research intern

Stanford University
Duties include: Lead to independ projects under the supervision of professor C. Karen Liu. Developing new algorithms for closing the sim2real gap using as well as planning for contact-rich non-prehensile dexterous manipulation task. Participate and presenting at lab’s paper reading group.
Supervisor: Professor C. Karen Liu

Summer 2021: Research Assistant

The University of Hong Kong
Duties include: As a URFP participant I lead the reseach project that develop of tools and investigate the how to use differentiable physics simulator for deformable object state representation learning.
Supervisor: Professor Jia Pan

Spring 2021: AI Lab Intern

AWS Shanghai AI Lab
Duties included: Reproduce research paper in temporal graphs for DGL as example. Collaborating with a PhD student to develop new algorithms in continuos temporal dynamic graph event forecasting.
Supervisor: Professor Junchi Yan

Summer 2020: Research Assistant

The University Of Hong Kong
Duties included: Exploring the potential as well as problems of using differentiable simulator for robot learning
Supervisor: Professor Jia Pan

Fun projects:

Nimblephysics

Actively contributing to a open source differentiable simulator developed by Keenon Werling & Prof. C. Karen Liu. which focus on differentiable simulation of articulated rigid body in contact-rich environment.

Robomaster ICRA AI Challenge 2020

Founded and lead HKU’s competition team, organized the code framework for development. Developed prize-winning a rapid navigator for wheeled robot during pendemic. Which ranked 10 over more than 50 teams.

Publications

DiffSRL: Learning Dynamic-aware State Representation for Deformable Object Control with Differentiable Simulator

S. Chen,Y. Liu, S. Yao, J. Li, T. Fan, J. Pan. (2022). "DiffSRL: Learning Dynamical State Representation for Deformable Object Manipulation with Differentiable Simulator. " IEEE-RAL.

Real-time Model Predictive Control and System Identification Using Differentiable Physics Simulation

S. Chen, K. Werling, C.K Liu. (2022). "Real-time Model Predictive Control and System Identification Using Differentiable Physics Simulation. " IEEE-RAL.

CEP3: Community Event Prediction with Neural Point Process on Graph

X. Wang,S. Chen, Y. He, M. Wang, Q. Gan, J. Yan, Y. Yang. (2022). "CEP3: Community Event Prediction with Neural Point Process on Graph. " LoG 2022.

Synthesize Dexterous Nonprehensile Pregrasp for Ungraspable Objects

S. Chen, A. Wu, C.K Liu. (2023). "Synthesize Dexterous Nonprehensile Pregrasp for Ungraspable Objects. " SIGGRAPH.

SpringGrasp: Synthesizing Compliant, Dexterous Grasps under Shape Uncertainty

S. Chen, J. Bohg, C.K Liu. (2024). "SpringGrasp: Synthesizing Compliant, Dexterous Grasps under Shape Uncertainty. " RSS.

One-Shot Transfer of Long-Horizon Extrinsic Manipulation Through Contact Retargeting

A. Wu, R. Wang, S. Chen, C. Eppner, C.K Liu. (2024). "One-Shot Transfer of Long-Horizon Extrinsic Manipulation Through Contact Retargeting. " IROS.

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SIRUI CHEN's CV

Education

Research experience

Fun projects:

Skills

Publications

DiffSRL: Learning Dynamic-aware State Representation for Deformable Object Control with Differentiable Simulator

Real-time Model Predictive Control and System Identification Using Differentiable Physics Simulation

CEP3: Community Event Prediction with Neural Point Process on Graph

Synthesize Dexterous Nonprehensile Pregrasp for Ungraspable Objects

SpringGrasp: Synthesizing Compliant, Dexterous Grasps under Shape Uncertainty

One-Shot Transfer of Long-Horizon Extrinsic Manipulation Through Contact Retargeting

Talks

Representing deformable object using differentiable physics simulator

Realtime Model Predictive Control and System Identification with Differentiable Physics Simulation

SpringGrasp: Synthesizing Compliant, Dexterous Grasps under Shape Uncertainty

Teaching

Student TA for ENGG 1330

Service and leadership