Jiawei (Kyle) Zhang

Jiawei (Kyle) Zhang

Master student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About

Hi there👋! I’m Jiawei (or Kyle), a master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests lie in the intersection of Robot Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning, and Computer Vision. I am currently working with Prof. Kim Joohyung. Previously, I received my Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Wuhan University.

Publications

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Learning Tone: Towards Xylophone Mastering (Humanoids 2024)

Jiawei Zhang, Taemoon Jeong, Sankalp Yamsani, Sungjoon Choi, and Joohyung Kim

Independent Projects

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CUDA Implemented LeNet-5

Highly parallelized CNN modules including convolutional layers, pooling layers, and fully connected layers with CUDA. GitHub

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Bi-manual Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning

Trained a bimanual manipulation policy for a standing robot to manipulate several objects with reinforcement learning, while taking segmented point cloud as input. GitHub

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RoboXylophone

Developed the RoboXylophone environment to train a multi-goal RL agent to switch between mallet control and target key hitting. GitHub

Experience

Education

  • M.Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2024
  • B.Eng in Computer Science, Wuhan University, 2019-2023
  • Shijiazhuang Foreign Language Education Group, 2013-2019

Profession

Life Beyond Campus

  • I’m enjoying painting Painting Image
    My work to satirize the unrestrained overtime culture and restricted freedom in China (inspired by Picasso’s Guernica).     , pop music, and watching sports games. My favorite basketball team is Golden State Warriors.
  • I’m a multilingual learner. I can speak Mandarin(native), English(proficient), and Japanese(fluent, I passed JLPT N1 in my high school).