Fan Shi
Assistant Professor
Works on AI for robotics, with interests in physical simulation and robot learning.
Fan Shi's lab at NUS works on manipulation & robot learning, physics-based simulation & animation and physics, climate & scientific computing. 22 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly TOG and NeurIPS. 12 PhD students. 10 alumni, most often to BOTA Systems AG and Google DeepMind. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 23%
- PhD students
- 12
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 10
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 2
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TOG, NeurIPS, Science Robotics
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning14 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation6 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing0 papers
- physical simulation0 papers
- physical0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- TOG (T1)DiffPhD: A Unified Differentiable Solver for Projective Heterogeneous Materials in Elastodynamics with Contact-Rich GPU-Acceleration (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)E2DRL: End-to-End Differentiable Reinforcement Learning for 3D Obstacle Avoidance in Quadruped Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Enabling Robust Cloth Manipulation via Inference-Time Simulator-in-the-Loop Refinement (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Evolution of Humanoid Locomotion Control (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Few-Shot Neural Differentiable Simulator: Real-to-Sim Rigid-Contact Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR)FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)RARM: Confidence-Gated Progress Reward Modeling for RL in Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)SAC-Loco: Safe and Adjustable Compliant Quadrupedal Locomotion (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- TOG (T1)Fast But Accurate: A Real-Time Hyperelastic Simulator with Robust Frictional Contact (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)GO-Flock: Goal-Oriented Flocking in 3D Unknown Environments with Depth Maps
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Learning Quiet Walking for a Small Home Robot (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)Learning to Walk in Costume: Adversarial Motion Priors for Aesthetically Constrained Humanoids (opens in a new tab)
- Graphics InferfaceMRISA: A Visual Analytics Approach for Comparing Locomotion Policies in Robotics Training (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)REBot: Reflexive Evasion Robot for Instantaneous Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Residual Policy Learning for Perceptive Quadruped Control Using Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftRoboWrangler: Toward Rope-based Grasping for Mobile Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA ELSR WorkshopSOFA++: A Real-Time GPU-based Surgical Robotics Simulator with Robust Frictional Contact (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)HumanMimic: Learning Natural Locomotion and Transitions for Humanoid Robot via Wasserstein Adversarial Imitation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)OMEGA: A Minimalistic 3D Hopping Robot with Parallel 3-RSR Mechanism for Safeguarding Humanitarian Demining
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)Rethinking Robustness Assessment: Adversarial Attacks on Learning-based Quadrupedal Locomotion Controllers (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went10 listed, 22% to industry
Industry 2Academia 7
Most often to
- BOTA Systems AG
- Google DeepMind
Also to
- ETH Zurich
- MIT
- Stanford University
Apply to NUSFall 2027
School of Computing PhD in Computer Science
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