PhD. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2023 - 2028 (Expected)
B.S. in Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, 2023
Research experience
Summer & Fall 2025: Research Intern
Nvidia Research GEAR Lab
Duties include: Research scaling up humanoid compliant control.
Summer 2024: Research Intern
Honda Research Institute
Duties include: Research dexterous tool manipulation with tactile sensing.
Fall 2021 to Summer 2022: Undergraduate research intern
Stanford University
Duties include: Lead to independ projects under the supervision of professor C. Karen Liu. Developing new algorithms for closing the sim2real gap using as well as planning for contact-rich non-prehensile dexterous manipulation task. Participate and presenting at lab’s paper reading group.
Supervisor: Professor C. Karen Liu
Summer 2021: Research Assistant
The University of Hong Kong
Duties include: As a URFP participant I lead the reseach project that develop of tools and investigate the how to use differentiable physics simulator for deformable object state representation learning.
Supervisor: Professor Jia Pan
Spring 2021: AI Lab Intern
AWS Shanghai AI Lab
Duties included: Reproduce research paper in temporal graphs for DGL as example. Collaborating with a PhD student to develop new algorithms in continuos temporal dynamic graph event forecasting.
Supervisor: Professor Junchi Yan
Summer 2020: Research Assistant
The University Of Hong Kong
Duties included: Exploring the potential as well as problems of using differentiable simulator for robot learning
Supervisor: Professor Jia Pan
Fun projects:
Nimblephysics
Actively contributing to a open source differentiable simulator developed by Keenon Werling & Prof. C. Karen Liu. which focus on differentiable simulation of articulated rigid body in contact-rich environment.
Robomaster ICRA AI Challenge 2020
Founded and lead HKU’s competition team, organized the code framework for development. Developed prize-winning a rapid navigator for wheeled robot during pendemic. Which ranked 10 over more than 50 teams.
S. Chen,Y. Liu, S. Yao, J. Li, T. Fan, J. Pan. (2022). "DiffSRL: Learning Dynamical State Representation for Deformable Object Manipulation with Differentiable Simulator. " IEEE-RAL.
S. Chen, K. Werling, C.K Liu. (2022). "Real-time Model Predictive Control and System Identification Using Differentiable Physics Simulation. " IEEE-RAL.
S. Chen, C. Wang, K, Nguyen, L, Fei-Fei, C.K Liu. (2025). "ARCap: Collecting High-quality Human Demonstrations for Robot Learning with Augmented Reality Feedback. " ICRA.
S. Chen, S. Marinovic, S. Iba, R. S. Zarrin. (2025). " GeoDEx: A Unified Geometric Framework for Tactile Dexterous and Extrinsic Manipulation under Force Uncertainty. " RSS.
S. Chen, Y. Ye, Z. Cao, J. Lew, P. Xu, C.K. Liu. (2025). "Hand-Eye Autonomous Delivery: Learning Humanoid Navigation, Locomotion and Reaching. " CoRL.
Z. Luo, Y. Yuan, T. Wang, C. Li, S. Chen, F. Castaneda, Z. Cao, X. Da, etc. (2025). "SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control. " Arxiv.
