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Qingwei Ben
Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong
Intern, Shanghai AI Lab
elgceben@gmail.com

Hi! I’m Qingwei Ben (贲清炜), first-year Ph.D. of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong directed by Prof. Dahua Lin. Previously, I was an undergraduate at Tsinghua University, majoring in Mathematics and Physics + Software Engineering.

During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate enough to engage in research on mobile manipulation of quadruped robots under the supervision of Prof. Huazhe Xu at the TEA Lab, IIIS, Tsinghua University. Additionally, I worked as a visiting student at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Umass Amherst, under the direction of Prof. Chuang Gan, where my research focused on differentiable tactile simulation. Currently, I am now an intern mentored by Dr. Jiangmiao Pang at OpenRobotLab, Shanghai AI Lab. My research interest lies in Embodied AI, especially in legged robots such as quadrupeds and humanoids. My hope is to one day create intelligent robots akin to Vision, as what Iron Man did in the Marvel movies.

I am an avid fan of the NBA, League of Legends (LOL), and Teamfight Tactics. In my free time, I enjoy travelling, reading, painting, and writing calligraphy. If you want to communicate with me, feel free to drop me an e-mail at elgceben@gmail.com, I will respond to it as soon as I see it.

Interests

  • Robot Learning
  • Embodied AI
  • Legged Robot
  • Dexterous Manipulation
  • Tactile

Academia

Chinese University of Hong Kong
2024 - 2028
Ph.D. Information Engineering
Directed by Prof. Dahua Lin, MMLab
Tsinghua University
2020 - 2024
B.Sc. & B.Eng. Mathematics and Physics + Software Engineering

News

  • Our Paper GRUtopia has been released , July 2024.
  • One Paper Difftactile get accepted by ICLR 2024 , January 2024.
  • Become an intern at OpenRobotLab, Shanghai AI Lab , September 2023.
  • Work as a visiting student at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab & UMass Amherst , June 2023.
  • Become an undergraduate at Weiyang College, Tsinghua University , September 2020.

Recent Publications

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GRUtopia: Dream General Robots in a City at Scale, 2024, In submission
Hanqing Wang* , Jiahe Chen* , Wensi Huang* , Qingwei Ben* , Tai Wang* , Boyu Mi* , Tao Huang , Siheng Zhao , Yilun Chen , Sizhe Yang , Peizhou Cao , Wenye Yu , Zichao Ye , Jialun Li , Junfeng Long , Zirui Wang , Huiling Wang , Ying Zhao , Zhongying Tu , Yu Qiao , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang
RoboDuet: A Framework Affording Mobile-Manipulation and Cross-Embodiment, 2024, In submission
Guoping Pan* , Qingwei Ben* , Zhecheng Yuan , Guangqi Jiang , Yandong Ji , Jiangmiao Pang , Houde Liu , Huazhe Xu
DiffTactile: A Physics-based Differentiable Tactile Simulator for Contact-rich Robotic Manipulation, 2024, ICLR 2024
Zilin Si* , Gu Zhang* , Qingwei Ben* , Branden Romero , Zhou Xian , Chao Liu , Chuang Gan