Cheng Chi
Cheng Chi began his Columbia doctorate with Shuran Song in January 2021. His research focused on robotic manipulation and perception. Chi coauthored Iterative Residual Policy, which learns how action changes affect an observed trajectory. The team tested rope whipping and cloth swinging with simulation-trained policies and real robot trials. Chi coauthored Diffusion Policy in 2023 and Universal Manipulation Interface in 2024. These named projects extend his manipulation research into learning robot actions and teaching robots from demonstrations.
- Now at
- Shenzhen Technology University
- Works
- 13
- Citations
- 3,268
- h-index
- 8
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2021
Columbia doctoral work
Cheng Chi began his Columbia doctorate with Shuran Song in January 2021. His research focused on robotic manipulation and perception.
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2022
Manipulating deformable objects
Chi coauthored Iterative Residual Policy, which learns how action changes affect an observed trajectory. The team tested rope whipping and cloth swinging with simulation-trained policies and real robot trials.
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2023–2024
Learning from demonstrations
Chi coauthored Diffusion Policy in 2023 and Universal Manipulation Interface in 2024. These named projects extend his manipulation research into learning robot actions and teaching robots from demonstrations.
Sources and credits
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