Junpeng Gao

ETH Zurich. CNB Building.

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Hello, I am a last-year master student in Computational Science & Engineering at ETH Zurich. My research interests lie in

  • Computational design and fabrication of compliant and deformable objects like soft robots and metamaterials
  • Computational geometry and mechanism for compliant and deployable structure
  • AI-facilitated simulation and differentiable simulation for physics,
  • Development of high-performance scientific computing and simulation software.

You can check my CV here

During my master study, I worked on modeling soft robots and finished my semester project at Soft Robotics Lab, supervised by Mike Y. Michelis and Andrew Spielberg. I was an open-source contributer in Julia community before and implemented three high-performance numerical ODE solvers (check the community news here). I also worked as an research intern at Dassault System and Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

Currently I am working on my master thesis at Interactive Geometry Lab, supervised by Tanguy Magne and overseen by Olga Sorkine-Hornung. I am now seeking a PhD position. If you are interested, feel free to send me an email.

news

Jul 24, 2024 Our paper Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Learned Residual Physics has been accepted by RA-L. Check the project page!

selected publications

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    Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Learned Residual Physics
    Junpeng Gao, Mike Y. Michelis, Andrew Spielberg, and Robert K. Katzschmann
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024