Jia Li 李嘉

I am an undergraduate studying Data Science and Big Data Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). My research interests are in robot learning and reinforcement learning, with a focus on whole-body control and humanoid loco-manipulation.

Jia Li

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Research

My research interests are in Robot Learning and Reinforcement Learning, especially whole-body control and humanoid loco-manipulation. I am interested in learning reusable behavioral representations and skills that support generalization across robots and tasks.

Representative works are highlighted.

Real humanoid demonstrations of carrying, pushing, kicking, picking and sitting in SUGAR

SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework

Tianshu Wu*, Xiangqi Kong*, Yue Chen*, Qize Yu, Hang Ye, Jia Li, Yizhou Wang, Hao Dong

PaperProjectCodeVideo
BibTeX
@misc{wu2026sugar,
  title={SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework},
  author={Tianshu Wu and Xiangqi Kong and Yue Chen and Qize Yu and Hang Ye and Jia Li and Yizhou Wang and Hao Dong},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2605.20373},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20373}
}

NeurIPS 2026

Learning humanoid loco-manipulation from human videos. My work covered human–object interaction priors, physics-based demonstration refinement and the hierarchical controller and evaluation pipeline.

I2E treats an image as an interactive environment with decomposed objects and executable editing actions

I2E: From Image Pixels to Actionable Interactive Environments for Text-Guided Image Editing

Jinghan Yu, Junhao Xiao, Chenyu Zhu, Jiaming Li, Jia Li, HanMing Deng, Xirui Wang, Guoli Jia, Jianjun Li, Xiang Bai, Bowen Zhou, Zhiyuan Ma

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{yu2026i2e,
  title={{I2E}: From Image Pixels to Actionable Interactive Environments for Text-Guided Image Editing},
  author={Jinghan Yu and Junhao Xiao and Chenyu Zhu and Jiaming Li and Jia Li and HanMing Deng and Xirui Wang and Guoli Jia and Jianjun Li and Xiang Bai and Bowen Zhou and Zhiyuan Ma},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  year={2026},
  pages={44827--44850},
  doi={10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.2076},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2076/}
}

ACL 2026

Turning image editing into interactions with a decomposed environment. I worked on background inpainting, mask refinement, environment-aware semantic integration and benchmark evaluation.

* Equal contribution. My name is underlined in the author lists. Hover over a demo thumbnail to play, or use its Play demo button.

Projects

Academic Skills Market / ScholarSkill

Mar – Jun 2026 · Core contributor

Built research-skill tagging and retrieval, automated ingestion with retries and idempotent database updates and deployment with systemd and Nginx.

LingShu · General-purpose AI assistant

Jun – Aug 2025 · Project contributor

Helped build a reusable library of 368 atomic actions across 29 apps, with structured action definitions and tests for cross-app task execution.

Shuzheng e-Station · Government-service AI agent

Jun – Aug 2025 · Project contributor

Contributed domain knowledge integration, structured SFT data and benchmarks, vLLM inference and API/database integration for a government-service agent on the Jiutian platform.

Experience

RoboParty Lab

May 2026 – Present

Research intern

Research mentor: Yitang Li. Academic advisor: Hao Zhao. Cross-embodiment reinforcement learning and behavioral foundation models; MimicAll and UFO.

Peking University · PKU-Agibot Lab

Feb – May 2026

Research intern

Advised by Hao Dong. Human-video-driven humanoid loco-manipulation; SUGAR.

HUST · MAIR

Oct 2025 – Feb 2026

Undergraduate research intern

Research advisor: Zhiyuan Ma. Academic advisor: Jianjun Li. Text-guided image editing; I2E.

Education

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sep 2024 – Jun 2028 (expected)

Undergraduate, Data Science and Big Data Technology

Overall score: 90.5/100 · Major rank: 1/70

Selected coursework: Machine Learning (95), Introduction to NLP (95), Algorithm Design and Analysis Practice (97), Database Systems Practice (97) and Computer Systems Lab (99).

Selected Awards and Honors

Miscellaneous

Tools I work with: Python, C/C++, PyTorch, Isaac Lab / mjlab, Unitree RL Lab, Git, SQL, LaTeX.