Guanya Shi
Assistant Professor
Studies learning-based control for agile robots, combining control theory and machine learning.
Guanya Shi's lab at CMU works on planning, control & multi-robot systems and manipulation & robot learning. 37 papers since 2023, 34 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICRA. 9 PhD students and 8 master's students. 26 alumni, most often to Berkeley AI Research from 2026 and HKU Robotics from 2025. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 92%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 8
- alumni listed
- 26
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 22 papers2026 · T1 20 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 7
- 6 papers2024 · T1 5
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICRA, RSS, ICLR, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning20 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems13 papers
- control8 papers
- agile4 papers
- control theory0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202622 papers
- CoRL (T1)AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning
- ICLR (T1)BFM-Zero: A Promptable Behavioral Foundation Model for Humanoid Control Using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
- ICML (T1)CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
- Science Robotics (T1)Evolution of Humanoid Locomotion Control
- CoRL (T1)FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control
- L4DCFALCON: Learning Force-Adaptive Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
- TMLR (T1)Global Convergence of Sampling-Based Nonconvex Optimization through Diffusion-Style Smoothing
- CoRL (T1)LUCID: Learning Embodiment-Agnostic Intent Models from Unstructured Human Videos for Scalable Dexterous Robot Skill Acquisition
- ICLR (T1)Much Ado About Noising: Dispelling the Myths of Generative Robotic Control
- ICRA (T1)OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction
- RSS (T1)Perceptive Humanoid Parkour: Chaining Dynamic Human Skills via Motion Matching
20257 papers
- ICRA (T1)Agile Continuous Jumping in Discontinuous Terrains
- ICRA (T1)AnyCar to Anywhere: Learning Universal Dynamics Model for Agile and Adaptive Mobility
- RSS (T1)ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills
- RSS (T1)Flying Hand: End-Effector-Centric Framework for Versatile Aerial Manipulation Teleoperation and Policy Learning
- ICRA (T1)Full-Order Sampling-Based MPC for Torque-Level Locomotion Control via Diffusion-Style Annealing
- CoRL (T1)Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy
- CoRL (T1)Sampling-Based System Identification with Active Exploration for Legged Robot Sim2Real Learning
20246 papers
- RSS (T1)Agile But Safe: Learning Collision-Free High-Speed Legged Locomotion
- RA-LFlying Calligrapher: Contact-Aware Motion and Force Planning and Control for Aerial Manipulation
- IROS (T1)Learning Human-to-Humanoid Real-Time Whole-Body Teleoperation
- NeurIPS (T1)Model-Based Diffusion for Trajectory Optimization
- CoRL (T1)OmniH2O: Universal and Dexterous Human-to-Humanoid Whole-Body Teleoperation and Learning
- CoRL (T1)WoCoCo: Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Control with Sequential Contacts
20232 papers
- CoRL (T1)DATT: Deep Adaptive Trajectory Tracking for Quadrotor Control
- NeurIPS (T1)Optimal Exploration for Model-based RL in Nonlinear Systems
Where alumni went26 listed, 11% to industry
Industry 2Academia 16
Most often to
- Berkeley AI Research from 2026
- HKU Robotics from 2025
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- UC Berkeley
- Stanford University
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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