Yuxin Chen - 陈瑀昕

Hi there! I'm a third-year Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR). I have the privilege of working with Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka, a distinguished member of National Academy of Engineering in the Mechanical Systems Control (MSC) Lab.

Prior to this, I obtained a Master's degree in Robotics advised by Prof. Ramanarayan Vasudevan and a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering supervised by Prof. Ella Atkins from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I also hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

During my graduate study, I am fortunate to have the opportunity as a research intern at Robotics and AI Institute (RAI Institute) and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). Previously, I have spent time at Zoox and ZF as software intern.

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yuxinc [at] berkeley [dot] edu

News

Mar, 2025 I joined Robotics and AI Institute (RAI Institute) as a research intern!
Feb, 2025 I was invited to give a talk @ TwelveLabs Webinar!
Jan, 2025 Two accepted papers (Fine-tune Diffusion Policy and Robotic Palletization) at ICRA 2025!
Sep, 2024 One accepted paper (Continual Learning of VLM) at NeurIPS 2024!
May, 2024 One accepted paper (Multi-agent RL) at RLC 2024!
Feb, 2024 I joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) as a research intern!
Dec, 2023 One accepted abstract (Multi-agent RL) at AAMAS 2024!
Oct, 2023 We organized the Workshop on Scenario and Behavior Diversity in Simulation for Autonomous Vehicle Validation at IEEE IAVVC 2023!
Aug, 2022 I started as a Ph.D. student in MSC Lab at UC Berkeley!

Research

My long-term research goal is to build trustworthy and safe-guaranteed autonomous agents that can reason about and interact effectively with the physical world.

FDPP: Fine-tune Diffusion Policy with Human Preference
Yuxin Chen, Devesh K. Jha, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Diego Romeres
ICRA, 2025

Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference
Tianqi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, Wei Zhan
ICRA, 2025

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DexH2R: Task-oriented Dexterous Manipulation from Human to Robots
Shuqi Zhao*, Xinghao Zhu*, Yuxin Chen, Chenran Li, Xiang Zhang, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Under review, 2024

MEReQ: Max-Ent Residual-Q Inverse RL for Sample-Efficient Alignment from Intervention
Yuxin Chen*, Chen Tang*, Chenran Li, Ran Tian, Peter Stone, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan
Under review, 2024

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Advancing Cross-domain Discriminability in Continual Learning of Vison-Language Models
Yicheng Xu*, Yuxin Chen*, Jiahao Nie, Yusong Wang, Huiping Zhuang, Manabu Okumura
NeurIPS, 2024

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Quantifying Agent Interaction in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cost-efficient Generalization
Yuxin Chen, Chen Tang, Ran Tian, Chenran Li, Jinning Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan
RLC, 2024
AAMAS, 2024

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These Maps are Made for Walking: Real-Time Terrain Property Estimation for Mobile Robots
Parker Ewen, Adam Li, Yuxin Chen, Steven Hong, Ram Vasudevan
RA-L, 2022

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Generating continuous motion and force plans in real-time for legged mobile manipulation
Parker Ewen, Jean-Pierre Sleiman, Yuxin Chen, Wei-Chun Lu, Marco Hutter, Ram Vasudevan
ICRA, 2021

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Nailed It: Autonomous Roofing with a Nailgun-Equipped Octocopter
Matthew M Romano, Yuxin Chen, Prince Kuevor, Owen Marshall, Ella Atkins
AIAA AVIATION, 2021

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Stolen from Jon Barron