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Haocheng Yin
Ph.D. in Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: hcyin [at] gatech [dot] edu
Office: Engineering Science & Mechanics (ESM) 210
Biography

Hi! I am Haocheng Yin, a Ph.D. student in Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am deeply honored to be co‑advised by Prof. Lu Gan and Prof. Yongsheng Chen. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I earned my master's degree at ETH Zürich, during which I had the honor of completing my master's thesis at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Heng Yang.

My research goal is to develop intelligent embodied agents that are generalizable across diverse tasks and adaptable to unseen environments in the physical world. To address this goal, my research currently explores:

  • Analyzing visual representations for robust robot control.
  • Designing generalizable control modules for sim-to-real transfer.
  • Building compositional generative models for effective world modeling.
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Publications
(* indicates equal contribution)
Inference-Time Enhancement of Generative Robot Policies via Predictive World Modeling
Han Qi, Haocheng Yin, Aris Zhu, Yilun Du, and Heng Yang
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2026
[arXiv] [Project Page] [BibTeX] 

    @article{qi2026inference,
      title={Inference-Time Enhancement of Generative Robot Policies via Predictive World Modeling},
      author={Qi, Han and Yin, Haocheng and Zhu, Aris and Du, Yilun and Yang, Heng},
      journal= {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
      year={2026},
      doi={10.1109/LRA.2026.3673995}
    }
Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
Han Qi*, Haocheng Yin*, and Heng Yang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
[arXiv] [Project Page] [BibTeX]
Spotlight

    @inproceedings{qi2025control,
      title={Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation},
      author={Qi, Han and Yin, Haocheng and Yang, Heng},
      booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      year={2025}
    }
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Robotics
August 2025 - Present
Atlanta, GA
ETH Zürich
M.S. in Computer Science
September 2021 - October 2024
Zürich, Switzerland
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
September 2017 - May 2021
ZJU-UIUC Dual Degree Program
Champaign, IL
Zhejiang University
B.E. in Electrical Engineering & Automation
September 2017 - June 2021
ZJU-UIUC Dual Degree Program
Hangzhou, China
Experience
Georgia Tech Lunar Lab
Research Assistant | with Prof. Lu Gan
August 2025 - Present
Atlanta, GA
Harvard SEAS Computational Robotics Lab
Research Assistant | with Prof. Heng Yang
March 2024 - February 2025
Cambridge, MA
ETH Zürich Soft Robotics Lab
Research Assistant | with Prof. Robert Katzschmann
March 2023 - December 2023
Zürich, Switzerland
ETH Zürich Optimization & Decision Intelligence Lab
Research Assistant | with Prof. Niao He
March 2022 - September 2022
Zürich, Switzerland