Michael (Jiahe) Pan

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I am a visiting researcher at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) working on dexterous robot manipulation, under the supervision of Prof. Jitendra Malik. I am also a final-year Master’s student in Robotics at ETH Zürich, advised by Prof. Stelian Coros.

Previously, I worked on rapid, online real-world policy learning using differentiable simulation, under the supervision of Prof. Davide Scaramuzza. Prior to that, I worked on haptic and AR-enhanced robot teleoperation for adaptive human-robot shared control.

My research interests revolve around designing novel robot learning frameworks to achieve agile, adaptive, and dexterous behaviors in complex and dynamic real-world environments.

I am currently seeking PhD positions starting Fall 2026!

news

Jan 16, 2026 🎉 Ghost Arm: Aligning Human and Robot Kinematics through AR Overlays in MoCap-Based Teleoperation of Robot Arm is accepted to Augmented Humans (AHs) 2026
Dec 20, 2025 🎉 Learning on the Fly: Rapid Policy Adaptation via Differentiable Simulation is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), with oral presentation at ICRA 2026
Sep 06, 2025 🎉 Learning on the Fly: Rapid Policy Adaptation via Differentiable Simulation is accepted to CoRL 2025 (Resource-Rational Robot Learning workshop)
Mar 04, 2025 🤖 “OfficeMate” was featured in a live demo at HRI 2025
Jan 08, 2025 🎉 Assisting MoCap-Based Teleoperation of Robot Arm using Augmented Reality Visualisations is accepted to HRI 2025
Jan 08, 2025 🎉 OfficeMate: Pilot Evaluation of an Office Assistant Robot is accepted to HRI 2025
Dec 20, 2024 🎉 Using Fitts’ Law to Benchmark Assisted Human-Robot Performance is accepted to HRI 2025
Jun 07, 2024 🎉 A Review of Differentiable Simulators is accepted to IEEE Access
Apr 30, 2024 🎉 Effects of Shared Control on Cognitive Load and Trust in Teleoperated Trajectory Tracking is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), with oral presentation at IROS 2024
Mar 15, 2024 🏆 Team UniMelb’s entry “OfficeMate” won 1st-place in the Office Assistant Robot Competition at HRI 2024
Feb 05, 2024 🎉 FaceVis: Exploring a Robot’s Face for Affective Visualisation Design is accepted to CHI 2024
Dec 06, 2023 🎓 Graduated from The University of Melbourne (BSc. Mechatronics Engineering) with First-Class Honours
Jun 08, 2023 🎉 Variable Grasp Pose and Commitment for Trajectory Optimization is accepted to HORA 2023