Peter Yichen Chen
@peterchencyc
UBC PhysAI Lab – Hiring postdocs, PhD students, and full-time paid interns
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1/N 🎨🤖Given only a static image of an oil painting by an expert artist, can a robot infer the corresponding control actions, such as trajectory, orientation, and applied force, to accurately reproduce the painting? 🖌️Introducing IMPASTO: a robotic oil-painting system that…
I'm recruiting multiple PhD students this cycle to join me at Harvard University and the Kempner Institute! My interests span vision and intelligence, including 3D/4D, active perception, memory, representation learning, and anything you're excited to explore! Deadline: Dec 15th.
Robot learning colleagues! We’re hiring tenure-track professors. DM me if you have any questions. cs.ubc.ca/our-department… (Photo Credit: @Chao_Liu_ )
As a robotics researcher, I’ve always had the urge to learn the full stack: Control, SLAM, ML Infra, Web, Mobile, Cloud, CNC, PCB, Firmware, DataOps, Supply Chain ... But usually, I'm surrounded by people with similar skill set as me. Here, I sit across the desk from deep…
It started with @tonyzzhao and @chichengcc in their apartment in April 2024. We moved out of our hacker house in Mountain View in February of 2025 with 10 people. Today, we have over 30 team members. Velocity of progress to a real, useful robot is everything to us. The progress…
A really valuable point here. It remains a critical research question where simulation will ultimately fit in the future solutions for robot manipulation, and what role it will play in the data ecosystem for that purpose. The scalability, diversity, and flexibility of simulation…
My favorite part is "Our Visual Sim2Real Journey" on the project website and the "Limitation and Discussion" section in the paper (especially the "Outlook" part below). This project aims to understand what is the boundary of pure sim2real visual humanoid loco-manipulation: no…
I’m recruiting PhD and Masters students at the University of British Columbia! Looking to work with students interested in LLM interpretability, and intersections with cog ling. The UBC NLP group is growing and awesome, and Vancouver is great. Come to 🇨🇦! isabelpapad.com/#joininglab
Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/admis…
Life update: I will join NYU Courant Math (CAOS) and Center of Data Science as an assistant professor in Fall 2026. If you are interested in doing a PhD with me please let me know! zongyi-li.github.io
Congratulations to Zongyi Li (@ZongyiLiCaltech), incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was announced as a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow yesterday! The AI2050 program funds researchers pursuing projects to help AI create immense benefits for humanity by 2050:
🧵 Evaluating robot policies in the real world is slow, expensive, and hard to scale. During my internship at @SceniXai this summer, we had many discussions around the two key questions: how accurate must a simulator be for evaluation to be meaningful, and how do we get there?…
UBC Computer Science welcomes new Assistant Professor Peter West! Dr. West will lead a research program studying large language models. Learn more about his journey into computer science and his research program at UBC! cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11/d…
In Fall 2026, I will begin a tenure-track faculty position @JHUCompSci Announcing the SciPhy lab, where we will study the science of physical agents (robots) We are now recruiting our first cohort of PhD students. If this is you, see sci-fi-lab.github.io
Considering a PhD/MSc in NLP? I’m hiring students this cycle! If you are passionate about making language models reliable and safe, eager about understanding and controlling language models, and would like to add to your research some multilingual flavor - apply to my group! 👇
🌍 We are hiring! Would you please help us spread the word? We welcome talents from every corner of the world — postdocs, PhD students, and paid, full-time research interns — to join us in exploring AI and physics simulation. #3D #Robotics #Graphics #Hiring #UBC
Hiring alert! Robotics and vis folks — take note 👀
UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions, with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. cs.ubc.ca/our-department…
People say there’s a huge gap between simulation and reality—especially when you run the simulation for a long time. That’s generally true… but we’re excited to share that we’ve taken a solid step toward closing that gap. We can now accurately simulate a robot folding boxes in…
Honored to be named a Canada Research Chair! Again, we’re recruiting postdocs and graduate students interested in aging, cancer, neuroscience, brain–computer interfaces, virtual cells, autonomous labs, and general AI for biology. Reach out if this sounds like you😃
Congratulations to Dr. @XinTang288269 for being nominated as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Cell Biology, supporting his work bridging the fields of AI and biology! Learn more: msl.ubc.ca/dr-xin-tang-no… @UBC_CS @ubcscience @TIPS_SPIIE
“Physical AI needs AI-enhanced physics simulation.” I’ll be giving a talk on this topic at @IROS2025 this Friday afternoon — and at @ZJU_China the same morning. Catch me at either place!
At OpenAI I remember when we were excited to see a video model make a blurry, pixelated ping pong ball bounce up and down realistically for more than a second. "It learned physics!" That was ~4 years ago. Still think we're hitting a wall?
This is Ray3. The world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency. Available now for free in Dream Machine.
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