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Baichuan Huang

I am a Robotics Engineer at Coupang, where I spearheaded a robotic bin-picking system from R&D to full-scale production. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a Master's from Brown University. At Rutgers, I was advised by Prof. Jingjin Yu, and at Brown, by Prof. Stefanie Tellex. During my doctoral studies, I also collaborated with Prof. Abdeslam Boularias and interned at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) with Dr. Siddarth Jain.

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Research

I'm interested in robot manipulation, task planning, and perception.

My research interests lie at the intersection of robot manipulation, task planning, and perception. I am particularly focused on leveraging Reinforcement Learning (RL) and real-time, closed-loop control to solve complex problems. My goal is to equip robots with the intelligence to handle long-horizon tasks in dynamic industrial and domestic settings. My approach combines classical planning algorithms with modern deep learning and RL strategies, all of which are rigorously validated on both real and simulated robotic platforms to ensure robustness.

Monocular One-Shot Metric-Depth Alignment for RGB-Based Robot Grasping

Teng Guo, Baichuan Huang, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025
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Toward Holistic Planning and Control Optimization for Dual-Arm Rearrangement

Kai Gao, Zihe Ye, Duo Zhang, Baichuan Huang, Jingjin Yu
In review
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LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement

Haonan Chang, Kai Gao, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Alex Lee, Baichuan Huang, Eric Jing, Jingjin Yu, Abdeslam Boularias
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024
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Toward Optimal Tabletop Rearrangement with Multiple Manipulation Primitives

Baichuan Huang, Xujia Zhang, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
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EARL: Eye-on-Hand Reinforcement Learner for Dynamic Grasping with Active Pose Estimation

Baichuan Huang, Jingjin Yu, Siddarth Jain
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023
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Learning Generalizable Pivoting Skills

Xiang Zhang, Siddarth Jain, Baichuan Huang, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Diego Romeres
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
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Parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search with Batched Rigid-body Simulations for Speeding up Long-Horizon Episodic Robot Planning

Baichuan Huang, Abdeslam Boularias, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
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Interleaving Monte Carlo Tree Search and Self-Supervised Learning for Object Retrieval in Clutter

Baichuan Huang, Teng Guo, Abdeslam Boularias, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
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Fast high-quality tabletop rearrangement in bounded workspace

Kai Gao, Darren Lau, Baichuan Huang, Kostas E Bekris, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
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Stackelberg Strategic Guidance for Heterogeneous Robots Collaboration

Yuhan Zhao, Baichuan Huang, Jingjin Yu, Quanyan Zhu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
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Visual Foresight Trees for Object Retrieval from Clutter with Nonprehensile Rearrangement

Baichuan Huang, Shuai D. Han, Jingjin Yu, Abdeslam Boularias
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2022
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Toward Fully Automated Metal Recycling using Computer Vision and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Shuai D Han, Baichuan Huang, Sijie Ding, Changkyu Song, Si Wei Feng, Ming Xu, Hao Lin, Qingze Zou, Abdeslam Boularias, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2021
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DIPN: Deep Interaction Prediction Network with Application to Clutter Removal

Baichuan Huang, Shuai D. Han, Abdeslam Boularias, Jingjin Yu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021
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Advanced Autonomy on a Low-Cost Educational Drone Platform

Luke Eller*, Théo Guérin*, Baichuan Huang*, Garrett Warren*, Sophie Yang*, Josh Roy, Stefanie Tellex
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019
RoboCup Best Paper Award Finalist
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(* indicates equal contribution)

Planning with State Abstractions for Non-Markovian Task Specifications

Yoonseon Oh, Roma Patel, Thao Nguyen, Baichuan Huang, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2019
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Flight, camera, action! using natural language and mixed reality to control a drone

Baichuan Huang, Deniz Bayazit, Daniel Ullman, Nakul Gopalan, Stefanie Tellex
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019
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Bin Picking

Baichuan Huang
Project with Prof. Jingjin Yu 2023

Stack Rearrangement Forklift

Baichuan Huang
Project with Prof. Jingjin Yu 2019
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