Yanjia Huang

Mechanical Engineering

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77840, USA

I am Yanjia Huang, an M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where I am a member of the TACO Group led by Prof. Zhengzhong Tu. My research explores how world model, policy learning from videos can be woven together to produce robust, long-horizon plans for Embodied Agents, from indoor navigation to dexterous manipulation.

Prior to my graduate studies at Texas A&M, I completed a dual-degree program in Mechanical Engineering at the Sino-British College (SBC), USST and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), where I also pursued a minor in Physics. My passion for research was ignited during my time as a research assistant with Prof. Yanwei Fu at Fudan University and at NYU’s AI4CE Lab (advised by Prof. Chen Feng) and Multimedia and Visual Computing Lab (MMVC) (advised by Prof. Yi Fang). This passion was further solidified during my internship at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, mentored by Hang Xu.

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Outside of research, I’m fond of Bach, play piano and guitar, read Oscar Wilde’s poetry and the Stoics, and unwind with basketball, cycling, and the occasional daydream.

“Robots shouldn’t just imitate; they could imagine, reason, and plan.”

News

[11/2025] Started a visiting student position at the AIVC Lab at UCLA.
[03/2025] Our paper PANDORA: Diffusion Policy Learning for Dexterous Robotic Piano Playing was accepted to the NeurIPS AI4Music workshop.
[09/2024] Joined the TACO Group at Texas A&M University as a graduate research assistant.
[06/2024] Graduated with a dual B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the Sino-British College (SBC), USST.