CV

Education

2021 - 2026

Ph.D. in Robotics

Imperial College London, UK

Advisor: Dr. Petar Kormushev
Defended: May 2026 | Graduated: July 2026

2019 - 2020

M.S. in Robotics

King's College London, UK

Grades: 79, Distinction

Work Experience

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

Robotics and AI Team

Huawei London Research and Design Center, London, UK

Awards

Mar 2026

Amazon Robotics Award

Jun 2023

ICRA 2023 Cloth Manipulation Challenge - Honorable Mention

IEEE, Team Leader

Publications

GraphGarment: Learning Garment Dynamics for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation Tasks

IROS 2025

Wei Chen, Kelin Li, Dongmyoung Lee, Xiaoshuai Chen, Rui Zong, Petar Kormushev

TraKDis: A Transformer-based Knowledge Distillation Approach for Visual Reinforcement Learning with Application to Cloth Manipulation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Wei Chen, Nicolas Rojas

G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-On-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with a Single Robotic Arm

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Dongmyoung Lee*, Wei Chen*, Xiaoshuai Chen, Nicolas Rojas (* equal contribution)

Learning to Grasp Clothing Structural Regions for Garment Manipulation Tasks

IROS 2023

Wei Chen, Dongmyoung Lee, Digby Chappell, Nicolas Rojas

Haptic-ACT: Bridging Human Intuition with Compliant Robotic Manipulation via Immersive VR

IROS 2025

Kelin Li, Shubhan M Wagh, Nikhil Sharma, Sarthak Bhadani, Wei Chen, Chuanyu Liu, Petar Kormushev

A Backbone for Long-Horizon Robot Task Understanding

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

Xiaoshuai Chen, Wei Chen, Dongmyoung Lee, Yukun Ge, Nicolas Rojas, Petar Kormushev

Extended Hybrid Zero Dynamics for Bipedal Walking of the Knee-less Robot SLIDER

CLAWAR 2025

Rui Zong, Mingfeng Liang, Yuhan Fang, Kelin Wang, Xiaoshuai Chen, Wei Chen, Petar Kormushev

Synthetic Data Enables Faster Annotation and Robust Segmentation for Multi-Object Grasping in Clutter

ICMRE 2024

Dongmyoung Lee, Wei Chen, Nicolas Rojas

Under Review

GraphGarment: Data-efficient Learning of Garment Dynamics from Minimal Real-world Data

Under Review - Advanced Intelligent Systems

Wei Chen, Kelin Li, Dongmyoung Lee, Xiaoshuai Chen, Rui Zong, Petar Kormushev

Skills

- **Programming:** Python, C++, ROS - **Deep Learning:** PyTorch, TensorFlow - **Robotics:** Robot Manipulation, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning - **Languages:** Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)