Jie Wang
Master Student @ GRASP Lab
University of Pennsylvania
Hi! I'm a MS Robotics student at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory, where I have been fortunate to work with Jason Ma, Edward Hu, Dinesh Jayaraman and Kostas Daniilidis.
I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from ZJU and UIUC in 2024, advised by Said Mikki. and Wei Xiang.
I also spent time at IDEA-CVR as a research intern, advised by Xiaoke Jiang and Lei Zhang.
My research interests include VLAs, embodied reasoning and robot learning.
I am a passionate builder to make generalizable agents that can think and execute fine-grained manipulation, like brewing a cup of latte with an espresso machine.
This summer, I am working at Dyna Robotics, delivering high-performance reasoning VLA models. I am applying for a PhD position in Computer Science or Robotics. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.
News
GRASP Student, Faculty and Industry(SFI) Committee Meeting
I joined Faculty and Industry(SFI) Committee at GRASP Lab, inbviting distinguished guests to share their insights and experiences.
AAWR gets accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
AAWR: Real-World Reinforcement Learning of Interactive Perception Behaviors
RoboArena gets accepted by CoRL 2025, welcome to our workshop!
RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies
Research Internship at Dyna Robotics
At Dyna Robotics, I learned how to train large-scale VLAs models.
Selected Research
AAWR: Real World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors
Edward S. Hu*, Jie Wang*, Xingfang Yuan*, Fiona Luo, Muyao Li, Gaspard Lambrechts, Oleh Rybkin, Dinesh Jayaraman
tl;drWe propose a simple robot learning recipe leveraging privileged information to train active perception policies on real robots.
Evaluating pi0 in the Wild: Strengths, Problems, and the Future of Generalist Robot Policies
Jie Wang*, Matthew Leonard, Kostas Daniilidis, Dinesh Jayaraman, Edward S. Hu
tl;drWe vibe-check pi0 across 300 trials on various manipulation tasks, summarize the insights and our observations in this blog.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
M.S.E. in Robotics
Advisor: Prof. Dinesh Jayaraman
Zhejiang University
B.E. in Electronic and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Said Mikki
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant — Daniilidis Research Group, GRASP Lab
Advisor: Prof. Kostas Daniilidis
Improve Spatial Reasoning of VLAs like Pi05 via Guidance and RL.
Research Intern — Dyna Robotics
Advisor: Dr.Jason Ma & York Yang
Building an agentic reasoning VLA for fine-grained manipulation tasks depending on memory.
Graduate Research Assistant — PennPAL Research Group, GRASP Lab
Advisor: Prof. Dinesh Jayaraman
Building VLMs-based Manipulation System via Diffusion Policy for fine-grained tasks. Reproduced ReKep, SPHINX and pi0.
Multimodal MLE Intern — IDEA-Computer Vision & Robotics Department
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoke Jiang & Prof. Lei Zhang
Build, train and optimize a small human-centric video captioning model based on Grounding DINO 1.6Pro.