Curriculum Vitae

Dihong Huang · Pittsburgh, PA · dihongh@andrew.cmu.edu

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Education

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
B.S. in Computer Science, Sep 2023–May 2027 (expected) · GPA: 3.90/4.30

Research focus

Scalable robot learning for dexterous and contact-rich manipulation, including policy composition, diffusion and vision-language-action policies, robot data engines, and sim-to-real transfer.

Research experience

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA · Jun 2026–Present
Advisors: David Held and Zackory Erickson

Axis Robotics · Research Intern · Jan 2026–Jun 2026
Advisor: Jiachen Li

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Feb 2025–Present
Advisor: Mingyu Ding, Assistant Professor

Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China · Feb 2025–Jan 2026
Advisor: Yue Gao, Associate Professor

Preprints & Publications

1. DexCompose: Reusing Dexterous Policies for Multi-Task Manipulation with a Single Hand
   Dihong Huang, Zhenyu Wei, Zhuxiu Xu, Yunchao Yao, Sikai Li, Mingyu Ding
   Under review
2. What Matters in Quality-Aware VLA Pretraining: A Benchmark and Empirical Study
   Mingxuan Yan, Litian Gong, Dihong Huang, Zhixu Li, Tianyu Zhang, Wenqian Zhang, Hefeifei Jiang, Peihao Li, Jian Zhang, Mengfei Zhao, Yikai Tang, Hai Zhai, Zehao Wang, Ruijian Liang, Yanjia Huang, Lin Shao, Changliu Liu, Kaiyu Hang, Zhiwen Fan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Jianfei Yang, Jiachen Li^†
   Under review
3. DexVerse: A Modular Benchmark for Multi-Task, Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
   Yunchao Yao^*, Zhuxiu Xu^*, Tianqi Zhang, Zixian Liu, Sikai Li, Zhenyu Wei, Feng Chen, Dihong Huang, Kechang Wan, Chenyang Ma, Shuqi Zhao, Shenghua Gao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Yi Ma, Mingyu Ding^†
   Under review
4. AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation
   Mengfei Zhao^*, Dihong Huang^*, Yikai Tang^*, Peihao Li^*, Mingxuan Yan^*, Ruiqi Zhuang^*, Yanjia Huang^*, Jie Wang, Hai Zhai, Tony Zhou, Rui Zhang, Zhexi Luo, Yuchen Huang, Jianfei Yang^†, Jiachen Li^†
   IROS 2026 Workshop on Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI (PWMS)
5. Axis AI Platform: A Cross-Simulator, Cross-Machine Infrastructure for Scalable Teleoperation and Generalizable Robot Learning
   Axis Robotics Team
   Technical Report

^* Equal contribution. ^† Corresponding author.

Academic Services

• ICRA 2027 — Reviewer
• CoRL 2026 — Reviewer
• IROS 2026 — Reviewer

Honors and awards

• Dec 2024 — Shanghai Jiao Tong University Alumni Scholarship 2009 in SEIEE
• Nov 2024 — First Prize, National Mathematical Modeling Competition, 2024
• Jun 2024 — Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2024

Technical skills

• Programming: Python, C++, LaTeX
• Machine learning and robotics: PyTorch, diffusion policies, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, Isaac Gym/Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Linux

Language

TOEFL: 111 (Reading 30, Listening 30, Speaking 26, Writing 25)