I am a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Peking University (PKU).

I am the founder of BeingBeyond, a start-up company on foundation models for embodied AI.

My current research focuses on

• Reinforcement Learning
• Multimodal Models
• General Agents

with the aim of endowing robots/agents with the ability to autonomously acquire skills to accomplish tasks, cooperate, and communicate in the open world, towards artificial general intelligence.

Short Bio

I joined Peking University as an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science in Fall 2017 and have been a tenured Associate Professor since January 2024. Before that, I was a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. I received the PhD degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in 2014, master and bachelor degrees from Southeast University.

I am looking for self-motivated undergraduate students for research internships. I am recruiting PhD students (Fall 2027), RAs and postdocs at PKU. If you are interested, drop me an email.

Embodied AI

Embodied AI focuses on creating robots that can perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. It brings together dexterous hand manipulation, humanoid whole-body control, and foundation models that link perception, language, and action. By combining these elements, embodied AI aims to enable robots that can generalize and perform complex real-world tasks with human-like adaptability. Dexhand Manipulation Dexterous hand manipulation focuses on enabling robots to interact with objects with the precision, adaptability, and coordination of human hands. [Read More…]

Undergraduate Courses

• Foundation Models and Agents, Fall 2024, 2025
• Algorithms, Spring 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2018
• Introduction to Computer Systems, Fall 2017

Gradudate Courses

• Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Area Chair and Editorship

• Area Chair, ICLR 2024 2025 2026, ICML 2024 2025, NeurIPS 2024 2025

• Associate Editor, ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, 2022 -

• Guest Editor, Machine Learning Special Issue on RL for Real Life, 2023

Conference Organization

• NeurIPS 2024 Large-Scale Auction Challenge, Co-Organizer

• IEEE Conference on Games 2022, Keynote Co-Chair

• ICML 2021 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Real Life, General Co-Chair

• INFOCOM 2020 Worksop on Network Intelligence, General Co-Chair

• ACM TURC 2018, Award Co-Chair

• Room 523, Yanyuan Building, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.


• Office hour: please drop me an email to schedule