About Me
I’m a junior-year undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Robotic Engineering and minoring in Mathematics. Currently, I am conducting research on multiple robotic and computer vision topics: Deep Learning Optimization for 3D Vision, Robotic Task and Motion Planning with Scene Understanding, FDM Printing for Soft Robotics, and Healthcare Automation based on Motion Estimation. My research works are supervised by Prof. Ziming Zhang at VISLab@WPI and Prof. Markus Nemitz at RMG. CV: Link.
News
I am actively exploring opportunities for a Ph.D. student position for the fall of 2025. Feel free to contact me via email (hliu8 AT wpi DOT edu) or LinkedIn.
- This summer, I will join The Helping Hands Lab at Northeastern University as a visiting research student to work on cutting-edge robotic projects focusing on manipulations and 3D vision. Our projects will closely cooperate with Bostn Dynamic AI to address critical challenges in robotics.
- Our paper: Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators has been accepted by IEEE RoboSoft 2024 as an Oral Presentation!
Research Vision
My long-term research vision is to build automation systems that can be self-adaptive to new environments based on trustworthy data input from perception and learn motion strategies from logistics reasoning. These systems will assist humans to accomplish challenging tasks in the physical world.
Selected Publications
- Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation
| Imagination Policy: Using Generative Point Cloud Models for Learning Manipulation Policies Haojie Huang, Karl Schmeckpeper, Dian Wang, Ondrej Biza, Yaoyao Qian, Haotian Liu, Mingxi Jia, Robert Platt, and Robin Walters Under review, Preprint Project Page |  |
- Deep Learning Optimization for 3D Vision
| Set-to-Set Similarity Learning via Nearest Neighbor Matching with Gumbel Prior: A Probability Measure Haotian Liu*, Fangzhou Lin*, Haichong Zhang, Kazunori Yamada, Vijaya B Kolachalama, Venkatesh Saligrama, and Ziming Zhang(* co-first author) Under review, paper upon request |  |
| Loss Distillation via Gradient Matching for Point Cloud Completion with Weighted Chamfer Distance Haotian Liu*, Fangzhou Lin*, Haoying Zhou*, Songlin Hou*, Kazunori Yamada, Gregory S. Fischer, Yanhua Li, Haichong K. Zhang, and Ziming Zhang (* co-first author) Under review, PDF |  |
- FDM Printing for Soft Robotics
| Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators Yijia Wu*, Zilin Dai*, Haotian Liu, Lehong Wang, and Markus P. Nemitz (* co-first author) IEEE RoboSoft 2024 at San Diego, CA, USA Oral Presentation Preprint Video |  |
| STREAM: Software Tool for Routing Efficiently Advanced Macrofluidics Lehong Wang, Savita V. Kendre, Haotian Liu, and Markus P. Nemitz Under Review Preprint Video Project page |  |
Service
Reviewer of Frontiers in Neuroscience, section Decision Neuroscience