PHD RESEARCHER / PHYSICAL AI

I make things
that move.

I study intelligent systems in the physical world. I also make beautiful interfaces and open-source software because the tools we use should feel as considered as the ideas behind them.

Web · Robotics · WAM · VLA·Former RoboMaster member

PHYSICAL
AI

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01 Now

A SMALL INTRODUCTION

Curious about the gap between thinking and touching.

I am a PhD student researching Physical AI — systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world. My work lives somewhere between robotics, learning, simulation, and the messy details of making an idea actually run.

When I am away from the lab, I design interfaces, maintain open-source tools, and obsess over the little moments that make software feel calm, clear, and surprisingly nice to use.

01 / embodied intelligence02 / interface craft03 / open source

02 Research

SELECTED PAPERS

Learning to act
in the physical world.

Physical AI: how models perceive, predict, and act. Papers, preprints, and the code behind them.

01 / PAPEROpenWAM

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OpenWAM ↗

An open, modular research stack for World–Action Model pretraining, spanning infrastructure, controlled studies, and an open pretrained WAM.

AUTHORSYuran Wang^*‡ · Siqiao Huang^*‡ · Mingleyang Li^* · Chenhao Zhang^* · Jiaqi Liang^** equal contribution · ‡ project lead · † equal advising

CONTEXT WUJI Tech internship ↗

DATE2026 · arXiv preprint 2609.07398 ↗

03 Engineering

TOOLS, SYSTEMS, EXPERIMENTS

Different problems,
same curiosity.

Tools I build around the research, and open-source projects I help shape.

02 / ENGINEERINGGeneLab

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GeneLab ↗

An Isaac Lab–style API for RL and robotics research, powered by Genesis.

03 / ENGINEERINGParley

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Parley ↗

An open-source language practice workspace for chat, explanations, vocabulary, and review.

04 / ENGINEERINGThoughtLite

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ThoughtLite ↗

A modern Astro theme focused on content creation. I contribute to it, and my blog runs on it.

ARCHIVED / SIDE PROJECTan earlier Astro theme, archived now →MORE EXPERIMENTSEverything else lives on GitHub →

04 Notes

A LINE I KEEP COMING BACK TO

“The best tools disappear just enough for the idea to come through.”

I write about frontend systems, research tooling, and the places where engineering becomes a design problem.

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