Wei-Chen Li

Robotics, Simulation, Contact

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I am a second-year PhD student in robotics at Georgia Tech. My research focuses on differentiable simulation and control through contact. I leverage physics priors to enable sample-efficient trajectory and policy optimization. This enables the generation of vast data in contact-rich manipulation tasks, as well as to improve our understanding of manipulation.

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Sep 04, 2026 My paper on differentiable simulation and planning for deformables was accepted to CoRL 2026.
Apr 27, 2026 My paper on robust control and reachability for contact-rich manipulation was accepted to RSS 2026.
Jan 31, 2026 My paper on simulating slender deformables using convex optimization was accepted to ICRA 2026.