I am a Ph.D. candidate in
ECE at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
My research interests focus on learning structured models for robotic manipulation. I am fortunate to be advised by
Katie Driggs-Campbell and work closely with Yunzhu Li.
I have conducted extensive research in pushing new capabilities for robotics using machine learning.
My research focuses on robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and human-robot interaction. I develop algorithms that enable robots to learn from human demonstrations and improve their manipulation skills in complex environments.
Towards Uncertainty Unification: A Case Study for Preference Learning
S. Peng,
H. Chen,
K. Driggs-Campbell Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) , 2025
Paper
Learning Coordinated Bimanual Manipulation Policies using State Diffusion and Inverse Dynamics Models
H. Chen, J. Xu*, L. Sheng*,
T. Ji,
S. Liu,
Y. Li,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Project & Video / Paper
Lessons in Cooperation: A Qualitative Analysis of Driver Sentiments towards real-time Advisory Systems through a Focus Group User Study A. Hasan,
N. Chakraborty,
H. Chen,
J.-H. Cho,
C. Wu,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (ITSM), 2024
Paper
Towards Safety of Multi-Level Human-Robot Interaction in Industrial Tasks Z. Huang,
Y. Mun,
H. Chen,
Y. Xie, Y. Niu, X. Li, N. Zhong, H. You,
D.L. McPherson,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Special Session on Cyberphysical Manufacturing Networks, 2023
Learning Task Skills and Goals Simultaneously from Physical Interaction H. Chen*,
Y. Mun*,
Z. Huang,
Y. Niu, Y. Xie,
D.L. McPherson,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Special Session on Cyberphysical Manufacturing Networks, 2023
PeRP: Personalized Residual Policies For Congestion Mitigation Through Co-operative Advisory Systems
A. Hasan,
N. Chakraborty*,
H. Chen*,
J-H. Cho,
C. Wu,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2023
Paper / Website
Combining Model-Based Controllers and Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Traffic Simulation H. Chen,
T. Ji,
S. Liu,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2022
Paper
Robot Sound Interpretation: Combining Sight and Sound in Learning-Based Control P. Chang,
S. Liu,
H. Chen,
K. Driggs-Campbell IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
Paper / Video
Awards and Honors
Conference Travel Award, Graduate College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2023
Finalist - Best Paper/Best Student Paper Awards, Conference on Robot Learning 2023
Bronze Tablet Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2020
Excellent Graduate, Zhejiang University 2020
Student Speaker at Graduation, ZJU-UIUC Institute 2020
Provincial Government Scholarship, Zhejiang Province, China (Top 3%) 2019
Dean's List, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2019
National Scholarship, China (Top 1.8%) 2018
Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, Zhejiang University (Top 3%) 2018-2019
Academic Excellence Scholarship Award, ZJU-UIUC Institute 2017-2019
Top Ten Social Practice, Zhejiang University (Top 1.5%) 2017