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Kaifeng Jia

M.Eng. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
kj366@cornell.edu


About Me

I am an M.Eng. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, with research interests in robotics and robot learning. I am interested in developing learning-enabled robotic systems that can adapt, generalize, and operate reliably in the physical world.

I am currently seeking Ph.D. opportunities in Robot Learning.

Research Interests

Research

  1. Cooperative Multi-Agent Humanoid Manipulation (Present)
    Carnegie Mellon University (2026.06 – Present) Research Mentor: Hao E. Zhang
    Using OMOMO human–object interaction demonstrations and an OmniRetarget-based pipeline, we generate motion references for Unitree G1 humanoids and train single-agent whole-body motion-tracking policies. These pretrained policies are then used to initialize a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for cooperative humanoid push and pull tasks. We are currently investigating the emergence of cooperative behaviors among multiple humanoid agents without explicitly assigned roles.

  2. Physics-Aware Architecture for Metalens-Based Monocular Depth (Present)
    New York University (2026.05 – Present) Research Mentor: Bingxuan Li
    Building on Physically Grounded Monocular Depth via Nanophotonic Wavefront Encoding, I am designing a PromptDA-inspired architecture that extracts x- and y-direction shifts from polarization images and integrates these optical cues into a depth foundation model for metric depth estimation.

Education

Cornell University
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2025.08 – 2026.12 (Expected)

Hefei University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering
2021.09 – 2025.05

Projects

  1. Olin Library Navigation
    Indoor navigation for Olin Library, combining floor-plan graph generation, SLAM, path planning, and AR guidance
    Cornell University M.Eng. Design Project (2025.08 – 2026.05)

  2. Robotics lab reports and course projects
    Cornell University (2026.01 – 2026.05)

  3. Smart Desk Assistant
    PiTFT-based assistant with voice interaction and face tracking
    Cornell University (2025.08 – 2025.12)


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