Haoyang (Harry) Li

Hi!👋 I am Harry Li, a roboticist & researcher at UC San Diego advised by Prof. Hao Su. Previously, I helped build embodied AI foundations as an early member at Hillbot. During my undergraduate studies, I also co-founded a student healthcare robotics startup.

My research explores biological intelligence to advance AGI. I believe intelligence emerges from environmental interaction and next-state prediction. I aim to create self-evolving environments that constantly improve intelligent agents. In this AI era, I prioritize team success, 0-to-1 experience, and community impact over pure academic metrics.

Research Interests:

  • Interactive World Model: Developing neural simulators that model complex physical dynamics for agent learning.
  • Multimodal Agent: Building foundation models that integrate vision, language, and action for embodied reasoning.
  • Robotics: Bridging simulation and reality to deploy adaptive intelligent agents in the physical world.

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hal212 at ucsd dot edu
🏢 Office: Franklin Antonio Hall 3302 or (Atkinson Hall 5202), 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093

CoRL 2025 Oral presentation at Learning to Simulate Robotic Worlds (LSRW) Workshop
Hillbot First Intern working on hardware and simulation
UC San Diego Staff Researcher advised by Hao Su
Shanghai Excellent Graduates
ASME Finalist Award in the 2022 Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition

Diffusion Dynamics Models with Generative State Estimation for Cloth Manipulation
World Model

Tongxuan Tian*, Haoyang Li*, Bo Ai, show more
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
★ Oral presentation at CoRL workshop on Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds ★
★ RSS 2025 Structured World Models for Robotic Manipulation ★
Webpage  •   PDF

Hillbot Alpha: A Sim-to-Real Breakthrough in Mobile Manipulation Robotics
SimulationHardware

Hillbot Team
Hillbot Blog, 2024
★Embodied AI brains and foundational models in the world at #CES2025 ★
Blog Post

Robotic Visual Instruction
MLLMs

Yanbang Li, Ziyang Gong, Haoyang Li, show more
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
Webpage  •   PDF

Multi-View Domain Adaptation for Nighttime Aerial Tracking
Vision

Haoyang Li, Guangze Zheng, Sihang Li, show more
Undergraduate Thesis, 2023
★ Outstanding Graduate Thesis ★
Webpage  •   PDF

Portable Venipuncture Robot for Autonomous Vascular Access
HardwareVision

Haoyang Li*, Tenghui Xie*, Jinhai Pan, show more
ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, 2022
★ Best Robotic System Finalist ★
Webpage  •   PDF  •   2021 MIT Technology Review

Security Multimodal Agent (AEGIS)
MLLMs

2025
Google ADK Hackathon
Intelligent security system transforming passive surveillance into a responsive, conversational guardian using LLMs and real-time vision.
Related Direction: CCTV Agent.
Code  •   Youtube

3DGS Active Exploration Agent
GraphicsHardware

2024
Autonomous robot system navigating unknown indoor environments with LiDAR/RGB-D to reconstruct high-fidelity 3D scenes via Gaussian Splatting.
Related Direction: World Labs (Autonomous 3D generation).
Code

Home Cleaning Mobile Manipulation
Hardware

2024
Mobile manipulation platform integrating a collaborative arm with a mobile base for household tasks like tidying toys.
Follow-ups: Related products from Roborock Saros Z70.
Youtube

Antipodal Grasp Generation
Graphics

2023
Collision-free grasp generator analyzing 3D object meshes to propose viable Franka end-effector poses for RL priors and hardware co-design.
Code

RoboMaster
Hardware

2020
Lead mechanical design for the dart launcher system in the RoboMaster University Series global competition.

Reviewer, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, RA-L

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