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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🏢 Office: Franklin Antonio Hall 3302 or (Atkinson Hall 5202), 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093
Diffusion Dynamics Models with Generative State Estimation for Cloth Manipulation
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 ★
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OpenReal2Sim: A Toolbox for Real-to-Sim Reconstruction and Robotic Simulation
OpenReal2Sim Team
GitHub, 2025
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Hillbot Alpha: A Sim-to-Real Breakthrough in Mobile Manipulation Robotics
Hillbot Team
Hillbot Blog, 2024
★Embodied AI brains and foundational models in the world at #CES2025 ★
Blog Post
Robotic Visual Instruction
Yanbang Li, Ziyang Gong, Haoyang Li, show more
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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Multi-View Domain Adaptation for Nighttime Aerial Tracking
Haoyang Li, Guangze Zheng, Sihang Li, show more
Undergraduate Thesis, 2023
★ Outstanding Graduate Thesis ★
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Portable Venipuncture Robot for Autonomous Vascular Access
Haoyang Li*, Tenghui Xie*, Jinhai Pan, show more
ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, 2022
★ Best Robotic System Finalist ★
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2021
MIT Technology Review
Security Multimodal Agent (AEGIS)
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.
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Youtube
3DGS Active Exploration Agent
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
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
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
2020
Lead mechanical design for the dart launcher system in the RoboMaster University Series global competition.
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