2026
Embodied AI · Robotics
Liuhaichen Yang杨刘海晨
4th year MEng student
Intern at Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Member of ERL
I study how intelligent systems perceive, reason and act in the physical world. My current interests include Embodied AI, Vision-Language-Action models, World Action Models and RL post-training.
About me
I’m a fourth-year MEng Robotics & AI student at University College London (UCL), and I’m proud to be part of the first cohort of the programme. Before joining UCL, I studied Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) from 2022 to 2023, before leaving the programme to continue my studies at UCL. I joined Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as an intern earlier this year and am currently working there.
I’m interested in Embodied AI, reinforcement learning, and robotics and AI more broadly, and I’m open to conversations and collaborations in these areas. Before UCL, I studied International A-Levels at Xi’an Tieyi International Curriculum Centre (西安铁一中国际部). Beyond research, I serve as Vice Captain of the UCL Men’s Basketball 2nd Team.
Research interests
Embodied AIReinforcement LearningRobotics
Present MEng student
University College London
MEng Robotics & AI · fourth-year student
MEng student
University College London
MEng Robotics & AI · fourth-year studentActivities
UCL Men's Basketball Team — 2nd Team Vice Captain (2026–27)
2022–2023 BEng programme
The University of Hong Kong
Studied BEng from 2022 to 2023; left the programme in 2023.
BEng programme
The University of Hong Kong
Studied BEng from 2022 to 2023; left the programme in 2023.Programme
BEng
Period
2022–2023
Note
Left the programme in 2023.
2019–2022 International A-Level
Xi'an Tieyi International Curriculum Centre
Mathematics and science-focused international secondary education.
International A-Level
Xi'an Tieyi International Curriculum Centre
Mathematics and science-focused international secondary education.Courses
Maths · Further Maths · Physics · Chemistry
Activities
Basketball · Fencing
Academic focus
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and interdisciplinary problem solving.
Selected awards
- American Regions Mathematics League — Power Round II, National Gold, Global Top 10
- UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge — Gold Award
- Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge — National Gold Award
- MATH KANGAROO CHINA, Year 11 Level 6 — Top Gold
- UKChO, 53rd Chemistry Olympiad UK (Round I) — Gold Award
- Australian Chemistry Olympiad — Distinction
- BPhO Senior Physics Challenge — Gold Award (Global Ranking)
- International Linguistics Olympiad China (Senior) — 2nd Prize
Experience
research & engineering 2026 Research Intern
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
AgiBot Genie G2 · mobile manipulation · VLA/WAM deployment
Research Intern
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
2025 Industry Project
Johnson & Johnson
COMP0216 Industry Project
Industry Project
Johnson & Johnson
02 / Selected publications
papers & work in progress2026
SignVLA: Real-Time Sign Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation via Attention LSTM and Vision-Language-Action Models
2026
SignVLA: A Gloss-Free Vision-Language-Action Framework for Real-Time Sign Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation
03 / Projects
open source & research tools↗
ERL Research Skills
An open-source research operating system for Robotics & AI. I develop and maintain it within ERL, connecting literature discovery, research planning, paper writing, scientific review and robotics engineering workflows. Open for everyone to use.