Sha Yi
Researcher
Now Member of Technical Staff · Physical Intelligence
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UC San Diego → Physical Intelligence · Member of Technical Staff
Path
Current
Physical IntelligenceNEWMember of Technical Staff
Previous
New York University2027 –Incoming Assistant Professor (Tandon MAE and Courant CS)
UC San Diego2024 – 2026Postdoc Scholar (with Xiaolong Wang and Mike Tolley)- Carnegie Mellon University– 2024PhD, Robotics, advised by Katia Sycara and Zeynep Temel
- Carnegie Mellon University– 2019MS, Robotics, advised by Katia Sycara
- THThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University– 2017BEng, Electronic and Information Engineering
Papers
- Generating Robot Hands from Human DemonstrationsarXiv 2026Designs robot hand shapes from recordings of human hands doing tasks.
- Learning to Design Soft Hands using Reward ModelsarXiv; ICRA 2026 2025Uses learned reward models to search for soft robotic hand designs.
- House of Dextra: Cross-embodied Co-design for Dexterous HandsarXiv; ICLR 2026 2025Optimises dexterous hand hardware and its control policy together across different hand designs.
SourcesLatest move: yswhynot.github.ioyswhynot.github.ioyswhynot.github.io/yisha_resume.pdf