Carl (Hanwen) Qi

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin, where I am advised by Prof. Amy Zhang in Machine Intelligence through Decision-making and Interaction (MIDI) Lab.

Pror to UT, I obtained my Master's degree at CMU, where I was advised by Prof. David Held. I obtained my undergraduate degree in CS and Applied Math at UC Berkeley, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Prof. Aditya Grover in Robot Learning Lab (RLL).

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Research

I'm broadly interested in Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics. My specific interests include representation learning, long-horizon reasoning, and multi-task learning. My long-term research goal is to allow autonomous agents to act and learn in unstructured real world environments.

EC-Diffuser: Multi-Object Manipulation via Entity-Centric Behavior Generation
Carl Qi, Dan Haramati, Tal Daniel, Aviv Tamar, Amy Zhang
Preprint, 2024
Paper / Project Page

Robot Air Hockey: A Manipulation Testbed for Robot Learning with Reinforcement Learning
Caleb Chuck*, Carl Qi*, Michael Joseph Munje*, Shuozhe Li*, Max Rudolph*, Chang Shi*, Siddhant Agarwal*, Harshit Sikchi*, Abhinav Peri, Sarthak Dayal, Evan Kuo, Kavan Mehta, Anthony Wang, Peter Stone, Amy Zhang, Scott Niekum
ICRA Workshop Manipulation Skills, 2024
Paper / Project Page / Code (coming soon)

Learning Generalizable Tool-use Skills through Trajectory Generation
Carl Qi*, Yilin Wu*, Lifan Yu, Haoyue, Liu, Bowen Jiang, Xingyu Lin**, David Held**
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
Paper / Project Page / Code (coming soon)

Planning with Spatial-Temporal Abstraction from Point Clouds for Deformable Object Manipulation
Xingyu Lin*, Carl Qi*, Yunchu Zhang, Zhiao Huang, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Yunzhu Li, Chuang Gan, David Held
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
Paper / OpenReview / Project Page / Code

Learning Closed-loop Dough Manipulation using a Differentiable Reset Module
Carl Qi, Xingyu Lin, David Held
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
Paper / Project Page / Code

Covered by [The Washington Post] [CMU SCS News (robots roll dough)]
Imitating, Fast and Slow: Robust learning from demonstrations via decision-time planning
Carl Qi, Pieter Abbeel, Aditya Grover
Preprint, 2022
Paper

Teaching
cmu-cs TA, 10-418/618: ML for Structured Data, Spring 2022
TA, 10-725: Convex Optimization, Fall 2021
cs188 Instructor, CS188: Artificial Intelligence, Summer 2021
TA, CS188: Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2021
TA, CS188: Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2020
TA, CS188: Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2020
TA, CS188: Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2019

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