Yang Gao
Assistant Professor
Works on computer vision and reinforcement learning for robot learning.
Yang Gao's lab at Tsinghua works on manipulation & robot learning, robot perception & SLAM and reinforcement learning. 53 papers since 2023, 53 at top venues, mostly ICLR and CoRL. 17 PhD students and 1 master's student. 6 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 100%
- PhD students
- 17
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 18 papers2026 · T1 18 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 10
- 14 papers2024 · T1 14
- 11 papers2023 · T1 11
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, CoRL, IROS, ICML, ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning32 papers
- Reinforcement learning21 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM5 papers
- interdisciplinary information0 papers
- iiis0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202618 papers
- ICRA (T1)Best of Sim and Real: Decoupled Visuomotor Manipulation via Learning Control in Simulation and Perception in Real
- IROS (T1)EasyInsert: A Data Efficient and Generalizable Insertion Policy
- NeurIPS (T1)EgoTac: In-the-wild Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Vision
- CoRL (T1)FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)HuMI: Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation from Humanoid-Free Demonstrations
- ICLR (T1)Kimi-Dev: Agentless Training as Skill Prior for SWE-agents
- RSS (T1)Learning Native Continuation for Action Chunking Flow Policies
- ICML (T1)Learning to Reconfigure: Co-designing Reconfigurable robots for Heterogeneous Locomotion
- ICRA (T1)MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
- ICLR (T1)OneTwoVLA: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
- CoRL (T1)OpenHLM: An Empirical Recipe for Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
- ICLR (T1)OPRIDE: Efficient Offline Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via In-Dataset Exploration
202510 papers
- ICLR (T1)Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)FACET: Force-Adaptive Control via Impedance Reference Tracking for Legged Robots
- ICRA (T1)Fine-Tuning Hard-to-Simulate Objectives for Quadruped Locomotion: A Case Study on Total Power Saving
- CoRL (T1)HuB: Learning Extreme Humanoid Balance
- CoRL (T1)KineDex: Learning Tactile-Informed Visuomotor Policies via Kinesthetic Teaching for Dexterous Manipulation
- IROS (T1)Learning Manipulation Skills through Robot Chain-of-Thought with Sparse Failure Guidance
- ICLR (T1)Learning to Plan Before Answering: Self-Teaching LLMs to Learn Abstract Plans for Problem Solving
- IROS (T1)RoboEngine: Plug-and-Play Robot Data Augmentation with Semantic Robot Segmentation and Background Generation
- ICCV (T1)Self-Supervised Monocular 4D Scene Reconstruction for Egocentric Videos
- RSS (T1)SKIL: Semantic Keypoint Imitation Learning for Generalizable Data-efficient Manipulation
202414 papers
- RSS (T1)Any-point Trajectory Modeling for Policy Learning
- AAMAS (T1)Auto-Encoding Adversarial Imitation Learning
- ICLR (T1)Can Transformers Capture Spatial Relations between Objects?
- IROS (T1)CoPa: General Robotic Manipulation through Spatial Constraints of Parts with Foundation Models
- CoRL (T1)DexCatch: Learning to Catch Arbitrary Objects with Dexterous Hands
- ICML (T1)EfficientZero V2: Mastering Discrete and Continuous Control with Limited Data
- CoRL (T1)General Flow as Foundation Affordance for Scalable Robot Learning
- ICLR (T1)Imitation Learning from Observation with Automatic Discount Scheduling
- CoRL (T1)Leveraging Locality to Boost Sample Efficiency in Robotic Manipulation
- IROS (T1)MQE: Unleashing the Power of Interaction with Multi-agent Quadruped Environment
- CoRL (T1)Reinforcement Learning with Foundation Priors: Let Embodied Agent Efficiently Learn on Its Own
- AAAI (T1)Revisiting Disentanglement in Downstream Tasks: A Study on its Necessity for Abstract Visual Reasoning
202311 papers
- CoRL (T1)A Policy Optimization Method Towards Optimal-time Stability
- CoRL (T1)A Universal Semantic-Geometric Representation for Robotic Manipulation
- ICLR (T1)Become a Proficient Player with Limited Data through Watching Pure Videos
- ICLR (T1)Decision Transformer under Random Frame Dropping
- IROS (T1)Efficient Exploration Using Extra Safety Budget in Constrained Policy Optimization
- ICML (T1)For Pre-Trained Vision Models in Motor Control, Not All Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal
- AAAI (T1)Maximum Entropy Population-Based Training for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination
- ICML (T1)Policy Contrastive Imitation Learning
- ICLR (T1)Predictive Inference with Feature Conformal Prediction
- ICLR (T1)SpeedyZero: Mastering Atari with Limited Data and Time
- ICRA (T1)USEEK: Unsupervised SE (3)-Equivariant 3D Keypoints for Generalizable Manipulation
Where alumni went6 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 5
Also to
- Assistant Prof. at Shanghai Jiaotong University
- MIT
- Ph.D. at Texas A&M University
Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
- Round
- Main
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- Per school catalog
- Fee
- RMB 800
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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