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About

I am a PhD student at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , advised by Prof. Josie Hughes. I conduct research in AI and robotics.

I received my Master's degree from Technical University of Munich (TUM), where I was advised by Prof. Matthias Althoff. My bachelor's degree is from Shanghai University.

Publications

Online Imitation Learning paper cover

Online Imitation Learning for Manipulation via Decaying Relative Correction through Teleoperation

Cheng Pan*, Hunghon Cheng*, Josie Hughes

IROS 2025

Vision-Language-Action Model and Diffusion Policy Switching Enables Dexterous Control of an Anthropomorphic Hand

Cheng Pan, Kai Junge, Josie Hughes

Paper · Webpage

Robust Teleoperation of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand through Gesture Classification and Continuous Mapping

Cheng Pan*, Kai Junge*, Josie Hughes

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 2025

Learning motion reconstruction from demonstration via multi-modal soft tactile sensing

Cheng Pan, Kieran Gilday, Emily Sologuren, Kai Junge, Josie Hughes

ICRA 2024

Parallel online clustering of bandits via hedonic game

Parallel online clustering of bandits via hedonic game

Xiaotong Cheng, Cheng Pan, Setareh Maghsudi

ICML 2023

Recent activities

We won First Place (Tie) in What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) competition, Life Sciences Track, ICRA 2025 in Atlanta USA.

WBCD competition team photo

WBCD robot demonstration

Robot close-up during demonstration