Yutong Liang

San Diego · US

About

Hi there! 👋 I am Yutong Liang, a first-year graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at University of California San Diego, where I am advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang.

My research aims to endow robots with human-level dexterity for contact-rich manipulation. I study human-object interaction and in-hand manipulation with the long-term goal of building embodied AI systems that operate robustly in unstructured physical environments.

To make this practical, my methodology is leveraging human kinematic and dynamics priors within reinforcement learning, shrink the exploration space, enforce physically and semantically plausible motion, and deliver faster, safer, and more reliable policy learning with improved sim-to-real transfer.

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Education

University of California San Diego

Sep. 2025 - Jul. 2027 (Expected)

San Diego, United States

Jacobs School of Engineering
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Peking University

Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2025

Beijing, China

School of EECS
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

Nankai High School

Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2021

Tianjin, China

High School Diploma