Yulong Li
yulongl [at] mit [dot] edu

I'm an incoming PhD student at MIT EECS, where I aspire to build intelligent robots. Previously, I obtained MS in Robotics from CMU and bachelor's degrees in CS, physics, and mathematics from Columbia.

In my free time, my biggest hobby is making legendary plans about non-existant futuristic artifacts a.k.a. daydreaming. Besides mundane stuff like quantum computers, artificial memory, interstellar travelers, and time machines, my most pressing plan is to design a brain smart enough to earn a PhD. If I'm neither daydreaming or nightdreaming, I'm probably cycling or running.

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Research Projects

FACTR: Force-Attending Curriculum Training for Contact-Rich Policy Learning

Jason Jingzhou Liu*, Yulong Li*, Kenneth Shaw, Tony Tao, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Deepak Pathak
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025
Paper  •   Webpage   •   Hardware   •   Teleop Code   •   Training Code

Bimanual Dexterity for Complex Tasks

Kenneth Shaw*, Yulong Li*, Jiahui Yang, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Ray Liu, Haoyu Xiong, Russell Mendonca, Deepak Pathak
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
Paper  •   Webpage   •   Code

Object-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Robotic Manipulation

Yulong Li, Deepak Pathak
ICRA Workshop on 3D Manipulation 2024
Paper  •   Webpage

GPAT overview figure Rearrangement Planning for General Part Assembly

Yulong Li, Andy Zeng, Shuran Song
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023, Oral
Paper   •   Webpage   •  Code

Scene Editing as Teleoperation: A Case Study in 6DoF Kit Assembly

Yulong Li*, Shubham Argawal*, Jen-shuo Liu, Steven Feiner, Shuran Song
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
Paper   •   Webpage   •  Code

QMAexp=PSPACE poster A Simple Proof of Precise QMA = PSPACE

Yulong Li
Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2022
Paper   •   Poster

overview figure Key Frame Detection of Videos Using DCT and LSH

Yulong Li
Paper

Teaching Assistant Experience