Hello, I am a 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.
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.
In my spare time, I enjoyed board games, manga and anime. I also had a great time doing Kondi when I was in Zurich.Warning
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Carnegie Mellon UniversityElectrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Student2025 - present -
ETH ZurichM.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering -
ShanghaiTech UniversityB.S. in Physics
Honors & Awards
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IEEE RA-L Best Paper Award2024
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Julia Community News2021
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Selected Publications (view all )
Retrofitting Existing 3D Objects with Surface-Conforming Capacitive Sensing
Andjela Ilic, Junpeng Gao, Zhipeng Li, Yijing Jiang, Rachel Schuchert, Manuel Meier, Philipp Herholz, Christian Holz
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026
A computational fabrication pipeline that retrofits existing 3D objects with mutual-capacitance touch sensing conforming to their curved surfaces. I contributed the geometry modeling part of the project, including surface curve sampling and the 3D-to-2D unfolding that turns the sensor layout into fabrication-ready stencils.
Retrofitting Existing 3D Objects with Surface-Conforming Capacitive Sensing
Andjela Ilic, Junpeng Gao, Zhipeng Li, Yijing Jiang, Rachel Schuchert, Manuel Meier, Philipp Herholz, Christian Holz
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026
A computational fabrication pipeline that retrofits existing 3D objects with mutual-capacitance touch sensing conforming to their curved surfaces. I contributed the geometry modeling part of the project, including surface curve sampling and the 3D-to-2D unfolding that turns the sensor layout into fabrication-ready stencils.
Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Learned Residual Physics
Junpeng Gao, Mike Y. Michelis, Andrew Spielberg, Robert K. Katzschmann
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024 Best Paper Award 2024
Our paper on sim-to-real transfer of soft robots using learned residual physics was accepted by RA-L and received the 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.
Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Learned Residual Physics
Junpeng Gao, Mike Y. Michelis, Andrew Spielberg, Robert K. Katzschmann
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024 Best Paper Award 2024
Our paper on sim-to-real transfer of soft robots using learned residual physics was accepted by RA-L and received the 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.