Junpeng Gao
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Hello, I am a first-year PhD student advised by Prof. Andrew Spielberg in the Computational Invention Lab at CMU ECE. Previously, I earned my Master’s degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich and my Bachelor’s in Physics from ShanghaiTech University. My research interests lie in computational design, robotics, physics simulation and geometry processing. I am open to collaboration in these fields. Please feel free to get in touch if our interests align.
During my master study, I worked on modeling soft robots with Mike Y. Michelis and Prof. Andrew Spielberg. I wrote my master thesis at Interactive Geometry Lab supervised by Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung. I was also an open-source contributer in Julia community before and implemented some high-performance numerical ODE solvers (check the community news here).
In my spare time, I enjoyed board games, manga and anime. I also had a great time doing Kondi when I was in Zurich.
news
| May 13, 2025 | Our paper received RA-L Best Paper award as one of only five papers for the year 2024 from among more than 1,500 papers published in RA-L during 2024! |
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| 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! |
