Jiawen Wang

:envelope:  chiawenw@ucla.edu

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“Keep curiosity alive.”

Areas: Embodied AI, Motion Control and Perception, Human-Robot Interaction

I am now a Ph.D. student at the Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Department, UCLA, under the supervision of Prof. M. Khalid Jawed. My research interests include motion control, robot learning, and embodied AI.

I got my Master’s degree from Peking University, China, supervised by Prof. Dingsheng Luo. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s degree from NCEPU. Outside of academia, I enjoy playing football (soccer), swimming, and hitting the gym.


Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2025 – Present)

M.S. in Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, China (2022 – 2025)

B.S. in Automation, North China Electric Power University, China (2018 – 2022)


News

May, 2025 I’m honored to have been named a Peking University Outstanding Graduate. Onward and upward!
Jan, 2025 Our works, EHC-MM: Embodied Holistic Control for Mobile Manipulation and Domain Adaptation-Based Crossmodal Knowledge Distillation for 3D Semantic Segmentation, have been accepted to ICRA 2025.:tada: :tada: :tada:
Oct, 2024 I attended the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) in Abu Dahbi, UAE. That’s really a great experience in Robotics!
Dec, 2023 I presented our paper A Novel Learning-based Approach for Dual-Arm Robot Operation Point Selection in ICDL 2023 in Macau, China. :tada:
Oct, 2023 Our work on Robot Arm Reaching Based on Inner Rehearsal got published by Biomimetics. :tada:
Aug, 2023 I presented our paper Optimizing Robot Arm Reaching Ability with Different Joints Functionality in RO-MAN 2023 in Busan, Korea. :tada:


Selected Publications

2025

  1. ICRA
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    EHC-MM: Embodied Holistic Control for Mobile Manipulation
    Jiawen Wang, Yixiang Jin, Jun Shi, and 5 more authors
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2025
    PDF Website

2023

  1. Biomimetics
    Robot Arm Reaching Based on Inner Rehearsal
    Jiawen Wang, Yudi Zou, Yaoyao Wei, and 3 more authors
    Biomimetics, 2023
    DOI PDF Website
  2. RO-MAN
    Optimizing Robot Arm Reaching Ability with Different Joints Functionality
    Jiawen Wang, Tao Zhang, Yi Wang, and 1 more author
    IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023
    PDF
  3. ICDL
    A Novel Learning-based Approach for Dual-Arm Robot Operation Point Selection
    Jiawen Wang, Tao Zhang, Yi Wang, and 1 more author
    IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2023
    PDF