[Haocheng :)]
Haocheng Yin
Visiting researcher, Harvard SEAS
M.S. in Computer Science, ETH Zürich
Email: hcyin [at] seas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Office: Harvard SEAS Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) 3.407-01
Biography

I am Haocheng Yin (殷镐成), a Master student in Computer Science at ETH Zürich. Currently, I am a visiting researcher in Computational Robotics Lab at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), working 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 various unseen environments in the physical world. To address this goal, my current work seeks to cover:

  • Analyzing visual representations for robust robot control.
  • Designing the generalizable control module for sim-to-real transfer.
  • Realizing compositional generative models for effective world modeling.
[Click here to discover my academic journey and research experience]
I am actively applying for a Ph.D. program in Machine Learning and Robotics now --- Let's chat ;)
Research
(* indicates equal contribution)
Strengthening Generative Robot Policies through Predictive World Modeling
Han Qi*, Haocheng Yin*, Yilun Du, and Heng Yang
arXiv preprint / Website / Paper / BibTeX 

    @article{qi2025gpc,
      title={Strengthening Generative Robot Policies through Predictive World Modeling},
      author={Qi, Han and Yin, Haocheng and Du, Yilun and Yang, Heng},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00622},
      year={2025}
    }
Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation
Han Qi*, Haocheng Yin*, and Heng Yang
ICLR 2025 / Website / Paper / BibTeX
Spotlight Presentation

    @inproceedings{qi2025control,
      title={Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation},
      author={Qi, Han and Yin, Haocheng and Yang, Heng},
      booktitle={The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      year={2025}
    }
Education
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.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Automation
September 2017 - June 2021
ZJU-UIUC Dual-degree program
Hangzhou, China
Experience
Harvard SEAS Computational Robotics Lab
Research Assistant | with Prof. Heng Yang
March 2024 - Present
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