Zhao-Heng Yin 

Alex Zhao-Heng Yin

HKUST Robotics Institute

Kowloon, Hong Kong

zyinag@connect.ust.hk


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◤ Biography

I am a second-year M.Phil. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Qifeng Chen. I conduct research on reinforcement learning, imitation learning, with their applications in robotics. During my M.Phil., I also work closely with Prof. Yang Gao at Tsinghua University IIIS and Prof. Xiaolong Wang at UC San Diego.

I obtained my B.Sc. degree of Computer Science (Honored Class) and Mathematics advised by Prof. Wu-Jun Li at Nanjing University in 2021. During my undergraduate time, I was a student researcher in Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka's Lab at UC Berkeley.

Here is my CV/Resume.

[Feb 2023] I will join UC Berkeley EECS as a Computer Science PhD student starting Fall 2023.

◤ Research

I am developing novel algorithms for robot learning. In particular, I am working on imitation learning and reinforcement learning. I have proposed imitation learning algorithms that can leverage cross domain expert data (ICRA'22), learn more sample efficiently with MCTS planning (NeurIPS'22), and generalize better with relational inductive bias (CoRL'22-W). I also study the application of these algorithms on real robotics problem, such as dexterous manipulation.

◤ Selected Publications

My recent representative works are marked with ★.

★ Rotating without Seeing: Towards In-hand Dexterity through Touch
Zhao-Heng Yin*, Binghao Huang*, Yuzhe Qin, Qifeng Chen, Xiaolong Wang
Preprint 2023    PDF    Project
Dexterous robotic hand with touch-only control.
POINT
★ Spatial Generalization of Visual Imitation Learning with Position-Invariant Regularization
Zhao-Heng Yin, Yang Gao, Qifeng Chen
CoRL 2022 Workshop (Long Paper)   PDF   Code
"Aligning Robot Representation with Humans"
EI
★ Planning for Sample Efficient Imitation Learning
Zhao-Heng Yin, Weirui Ye, Qifeng Chen, Yang Gao
NeurIPS 2022   PDF   Code
We propose EfficientZero-Continuous and EfficientImitate for sample efficient robot learning.
CDIL
★ Cross Domain Robot Imitation with Invariant Representation
Zhao-Heng Yin, Lingfeng Sun, Hengbo Ma, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wu-Jun Li
ICRA 2022   PDF   Code
DEXPC
DexPoint: Generalizable Point Cloud Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation
Yuzhe Qin*, Binghao Huang*, Zhao-Heng Yin, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang
CoRL 2022   PDF
RGAN
Diverse Critical Interaction Generation for Planning and Planner Evaluation
Zhao-Heng Yin*, Lingfeng Sun*, Liting Sun, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan
IROS 2021   PDF
TOMA
TOMA: Topological Map Abstraction for Reinforcement Learning
Zhao-Heng Yin, Wu-Jun Li
arXiv 2020   PDF
◤ Miscellaneous

Some fun projects I participated in the past.

PALM
Bio-inspired* Direct-Drive Palmar Manipulation with Visual Imitation Learning
with Ka Hei Mak and Jungwon Seo (2021)
* guess where the inspiration comes from :P

My Chinese Name (surname first): 殷 兆恒.