Jin Cheng

- biography
Hi!
I’m a doctoral student in Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland 🇨🇭, affiliated with
Computational Robotics Lab advised by Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros.
Prior to this, I received my master’s degree in mechanical engineering at ETH Zürich and my bachelor’s degree in vehicle engineering at
Tsinghua University.
- research
My research interest lies in empowering artificial agents with the ability of learning motions by imitating or discovering them. Specifically, I focus on legged systems such as quadrupedal robots 🐕🐈, humanoids 🦾🦿and simulated characters 🚶🏻🏃🏻, which offer great potential in learning agile and natural behaviors.
- hobbies
Other than professional bios, I am from Chongqing, southwest of China. I am extremely fond of Chongqing hot pot. Besides, I love playing video games and watching movies. During my free time, I enjoy hiking in the mountains, playing tennis and snowboarding in winter.
News
2023, Oct 28 | 🪧 I am happy to share our recent work Diverse Offline Imitation Learning has been accepted to the Second Agent Learning in Open-Endedness Workshop at 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). |
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2023, Oct 25 | 🪧 I am happy to share our recent work Learning Diverse Skills for Local Navigation under Multi-constraint Optimality has been accepted to the workshop Towards Reliable and Deployable Learning-based Robotic Systems at 2023 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023). |
2023, Oct 22 | 🪧 I am happy to share our recent work Diverse Offline Imitation Learning has been accepted to the 2nd workshop on Pre-Training for Robot Learning at 2023 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023). |
2023, Oct 20 | 🪧 I am happy to share our recent work Learning Diverse Skills for Local Navigation under Multi-constraint Optimality has been accepted to the workshop Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning at 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). |
2023, Oct 1 | 🏫 I started my PhD in Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
2023, Sep 28 | 📑 I am happy to share our recent work from Autonomous Learning group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Diverse Offline Imitation Learning. Please check the project website for more details. |
2023, Sep 15 | 📑 I am happy to share our recent work from Autonomous Learning group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Learning Diverse Skills for Local Navigation under Multi-constraint Optimality. Please check the project website for more details. |
2023, Aug 23 | 📑 I am happy to share our recent work from Computational Robotics Lab, RL + Model-based Control: Using On-demand Optimal Control to Learn Versatile Legged Locomotion has been published to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal. Please check the project website for more details. |
2023, Jul 31 | 🎓 I received my master degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
2023, Jun 3 | 🇬🇧 I spent a wonderful week at the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) in London, United Kingdom. |
2023, Apr 1 | 🇩🇪 I started to work as a research intern in Autonomous Learning group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Tübingen, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Georg Martius. I will be working on reinforcement learning with unsupervised skill discovery for quadruped robots. |
2022, Nov 5 | 🇨🇭 I started to work as a research assistant in Computational Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros. I will be working on imitation learning for quadruped robots. |
2022, Oct 29 | 🇯🇵 I spent a wonderful week at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) in Kyoto, Japan. I have also successfully presented our work, Haptic Teleoperation of High-dimensional Robotic Systems Using a Feedback MPC Framework. |
2022, Oct 3 | 📋 I successfully defended my master thesis in Robotic Systems Lab under the supervision of Alexander Reske, Nikita Rudin, Fabian Jenelten, Dr. Farbod Farshidian, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter. I worked on imitating model predictive controller using reinforcement learning for perceptive locomotion for ANYmal. |
2022, Aug 15 | 📝 I started to work as head teaching assistant for Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control in HS22 from Prof. Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea at ETH Zürich. |
2022, Jun 30 | 📑 I am happy to announce that our recent work from Robotic Systems Lab, Haptic Teleoperation of High-dimensional Robotic Systems Using a Feedback MPC Framework has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), which will be held on October 23-27, 2022, Kyoto, Japan. |
2022, Mar 10 | 🎉 I was awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zürich, check website, post. |
2022, Feb 15 | 📝 I started to work as a student teaching assistant for Recursive Estimation in FS22 from Prof. Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea at ETH Zürich. |
2022, Jan 21 | 📋 I successfully finished my semester project in Robotic Systems Lab under the supervision of Dr. Firas Abi-Farraj, Dr. Farbod Farshidian, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter. I worked on improving teleoperation performance using model predictive control for ALMA. |
2021, Aug 15 | 📝 I started to work as a student teaching assistant for Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control in HS21 from Prof. Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea at ETH Zürich. |
2021, Jul 9 | ⛰️ I spent a wonderful week at ETH Robotics Summer School in Wangen an der Aare. A broad scope of components of autonomous mobile robots including state estimation, trajectory optimization, environment mapping, and artifact detection were introduced and implemented on a wheeled platform, SuperMegaBot. |
2020, Aug 14 | 🏫 I started my master program in mechanical engineering at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
2020, Jul 15 | 🎓 I received my bachelor degree in vehicle engineering from School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. |
2019, Oct 10 | 🎉 I was awarded Academic Excellence Scholarship again;) and Friends of Tsinghua Scholarship – German Scholarship from Tsinghua University. |
2019, Mar 10 | 🇩🇪 I spent three wonderful weeks at RWTH AACHEN University Winter School in Aachen, Germany. |
2018, Oct 10 | 🎉 I was awarded Academic Excellence Scholarship and Volunteer Public Service Scholarship from Tsinghua University. |
2017, Oct 10 | 🎉 I was awarded Integrated Excellence Scholarship from Tsinghua University. |
2016, Aug 15 | 🏫 I started my bachelor in vehicle engineering at Department of Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. |
Selected Publications
