Cheng Pan

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 am currently a Student Researcher on the Gemini Robotics team at Google DeepMind.

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 for Manipulation via Decaying Relative Correction through Teleoperation

Cheng Pan*, Hunghon Cheng*, Josie Hughes

IROS 2025

Paper  ·  Video

Parallel online clustering of bandits via hedonic game

Xiaotong Cheng, Cheng Pan, Setareh Maghsudi

ICML 2023

Paper

Recent activities

• In July 2026, I joined Google DeepMind as a Student Researcher on the Gemini Robotics team, where I work on vision-language-action (VLA) models and dexterous manipulation.
• I co-organized the Dexterity with Multifingered Hands: Hardware, Sensing, and Skills workshop at ICRA 2026.
• I co-organized the European participation sites for the What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Competition at ICRA 2026.
• 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.