Zhanpeng He
I am a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon Robotics, working with Jiajun Wu.
Before this, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, co-advised by Matei Ciocarlie and Shuran Song. I was a member of the Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) Lab and the Columbia Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (now REAL@Stanford).
Before joining CU, I received a master's degree from University of Southern California, where I worked as a research assistant at the Robotic Embedded System Laboratory (RESL) and advised by Professor Gaurav Sukhatme.
When I am not working, I enjoy cooking, brewing coffee and playing with my dog Nova. Here is a picture of Nova being corrupted by Gaussian noises.
I am always happy to mentor highly-motivated UG/MS students. If you are at Stanford (preferred) and want to discuss research opportunities, please feel free to shoot me an email.
Research
I'm a full-stack roboticist -- I believe robotics must be solved through progress in many different integral components. While scaling up data collection is important, we also need to design the right hardware (e.g, manipulators and contact sensors) and learning algorithms (e.g., learning from imbalanced sensor data) to enable robust policies on real robots for contact-rich tasks. To this end, my research includes:
- Policy learning (e.g., imitation learning, reinforcement learning) for contact-rich tasks;
- Hardware design (e.g., manipulators, data collection systems, and contact sensors) and task-driven hardware optimization;
- Learning from multi-sensor and imbalanced data;
- Human-in-the-loop policy learning and deployment;
My full research statement will be available soon.
Publications (* - indicates equal contributions and joint-first authors)
Eric T. Chang*,
Peter Ballentine*,
Zhanpeng He*,
Do-gon Kim,
Kai Jiang,
Hua-Hsuan Liang,
Joaquin Palacios,
William Wang,
Ioannis Kymissis,
Matei Ciocarlie
Sharfin Islam*,
Zewen Chen*,
Zhanpeng He*,
Swapneel Bhatt,
Andres Permuy,
Brock Taylor,
James Vickery,
Zhengbin Lu,
Cheng Zhang,
Pedro Piacenza,
Matei Ciocarlie
Zhanpeng He*,
Yifeng Cao*,
Matei Ciocarlie
Reginald McLean,
Evangelos Chatzaroulas,
Luc McCutcheon,
Frank Röder,
Tianhe Yu,
Zhanpeng He,
KR Zentner,
Ryan Julian,
JK Terry,
Isaac Woungang,
Nariman Farsad,
Pablo Samuel Castro
Do-Gon Kim*,
Kaidi Zhang*,
Hua-Hsuan Liang,
Eric T Chang,
Zhanpeng He,
Ioannis Kymissis,
Matei Ciocarlie
Sharfin Islam*,
Zhanpeng He*,
Matei Ciocarlie
Zhanpeng He,
Matei Ciocarlie
Siddharth Singi*,
Zhanpeng He*,
Alvin Pan,
Sandip Patel,
Gunnar A. Sigurdsson,
Robinson Piramuthu,
Shuran Song,
Matei Ciocarlie
Zhanpeng He,
Nikhil Chavan-Dafle,
Jinwook Huh,
Shuran Song,
Volkan Isler
Software
I was a member of rlworkgroup and took part in development of several robot-learning-related open-source projects.
- Garage: A toolkit for reproducible reinforcement learning research.
- Dowel: A little logger for machine learning research.
- Meta-World: A collection of environments for benchmarking meta-learning and multi-task reinforcement learning algorithms.
