Michael (Chengbo) Yuan   |   袁承博

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I am a Master student in Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS) at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yang Gao🥳. Currently, my research interests mainly focus on Embodied AI and Robot Learning (Tactile Manipulation, Egocentric Human Data, RL). I am also interested in and exploring venture capital and quantitative investment.

Perviously, I received my bachelor degree from the HongYi Honor class at the School of CS, Wuhan University😘, where I win the highest-level scholarship (10/60k+), Lei Jun Outstanding Scholarship with 100k RMB reward. I am also minoring in Law at School of Law. I have also interned at Sharpa, MoonshotAI and Huawei.

I welcome exploration, creation and excitement! 🤗🤩🤪

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contact me: ycb24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn michaelyuancb@163.com
Recent

2025.06.27: I will join Spirit AI as a research intern. I will also part time working in ZhenFund as a venture captial investor.

2026.06.21: We release FTP-1, the first generalist foundation tactile policy for any sensors, embodiments and labs. Try our open-source model and dataset on your own!

2026.5.21: I finished my internship at Sharpa, thanks for the great experience and guidance from the team!

Research

Here I only show representative research. For the complete list, please refer to my Google Scholar.

FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Chengbo Yuan (Project Leader), FTP-1 Team*
project page / arXiv / code / model / dataset
In Submission, 2026

FTP-1 is the first generalist foundation tactile policy across different tactile sensors for contact-rich manipulation. Pretrained on 3000 hours of tactile manipulation across 21 tactile sensors and 26 data sources, FTP-1 learns general tactile knowledge that can even transfer to unknown sensors.

MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
Chengbo Yuan, Rui Zhou*, Mengzhen Liu*, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Li Yi, Chuan Wen, Shanghang Zhang, Yang Gao
project page / arXiv / code / dataset
International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2026

MotionTrans is our first framework directly transfers motions of 13 human tasks to end-to-end policies (RGB-to-Action). The framework is designed at a systematic level, including data collection toolkit, human-to-robot data processing, and a weighted multi-task cotraining strategy.

RoboEngine: Plug-and-Play Robot Data Augmentation with Semantic Robot Segmentation and Background Generation
Chengbo Yuan*, Suraj Joshi*, Shaoting Zhu*, Hang Su, Hang Zhao, Yang Gao
project page / arXiv / code / dataset
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

RoboEngine is the first plug-and-play visual robot data augmentation toolkit. Users can effortlessly generate physics-aware robot scenes with few lines code. This enable training only in one scenes and visual generalizing to almost arbitrary scenes.

Self-Supervised Monocular 4D Scene Reconstruction for Egocentric Videos
Chengbo Yuan, Geng Chen, Li Yi, Yang Gao
project page / arXiv / code / thread
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

We train EgoMono4D, a fast, dense and generalizable 4D reconstruction model for egocentric videos with label-free self-supervised methods. The training is conducted sole on unlabeled videos, potentially to apply to more label-scarce fields in the future.

General Flow as Foundation Affordance for Scalable Robot Learning
Chengbo Yuan, Chuan Wen, Tong Zhang, Yang Gao
project page / arXiv / code / openreview / thread
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024

We build a 3D flow prediction model directly from large-scale RGBD human video datasets. Based on this model, we achieve stable zero-shot human-to-robot skill transfer in the real world.


Project
MindQuantFinance: High-Performance Quantitative Asset Pricing Library
A library for asset pricing (Q-quant) based on MindSpore
gitee
This is an AI+Finance project I participated in, where we built a high-performance library for derivative pricing based on MindSpore. It offers features such as Black-Scholes calculations, Monte Carlo simulations, and solutions to Backward SDE.
QFR: Tabular Prediction for Quantative Finance Research
A tabular prediction library designed for financial stock prediction.
github
This is one of the outcomes of an interesting experience, during which I worked with Prof. Jian Li on stock prediction problems. It provide rich tools for factors extraction and results prediction.
TaoClass: an AI-Driven Course Forum
A course forum powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vector Databases (VD).
gitee
This is a project I led, and it also serves as the final assignment for the Software Engineering course at Wuhan University. The forum utilizes AI technology to offer natural language course selection and intelligent back-end information management.


Selected Awards and Honors

  • 2023: Lei Jun Outstanding Scholarship of Wuhan University (Highest-level Scholarship, 10/60k+, ¥100k RMB)
  • 2023: Outstanding Camper of the Recruitment Camp of Tsinghua PBC School of Finance
  • 2022: National Scholarship of Chinese Government (8000 RMB)
  • 2019: National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI2019), Silver Award (Class D)


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