About
👋🏻 Hi! I’m an undergraduate student and researcher at the University of Washington (UW). I double major in computer science (with honors) and statistics, with a minor in mathematics. I am also a research collaborator working with the Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research (PRIOR) team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2).
At UW, I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof Ranjay Krishna at the Reasoning, AI, and VisioN (RAIVN) Lab and Prof Dieter Fox at the Robotics and State Estimation (RSE) Lab in UW CSE. Before that, I was advised by Prof Jenq-Neng Hwang at the Information Processing Lab (IPL) in UW ECE. I am also pleased to be mentored by Dr Jiafei Duan and Dr Ying Jin. At Ai2 PRIOR, I am fortunate to be mentored by Prof Ranjay Krishna and Dr Jiafei Duan, and sponsored by Dr Rose Hendrix.
My research interests are broadly in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and embodied AI. I am especially passionate about robot learning, imitation learning, behavior cloning, and foundation models for robotics.
🔥 News
- [May 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to FMEA @ CVPR 2025 and selected as Oral Presentation.
- [May 2025] Our paper PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing has been preprinted to arXiv.
- [May 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to ICML 2025.
- [Apr 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been featured by AI Index Report 2025.
- [Feb 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to WRL @ ICLR 2025 and selected as Oral Spotlight.
📑 Selected Publications
* Equal Contribution as First Authors † Equal Contribution as Second Authors ‡ Equal Contribution as Advisors
PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing
Long Cheng*, Jiafei Duan*, Yi Ru Wang†, Haoquan Fang†, Boyang Li†, Yushan Huang, Elvis Wang, Ainaz Eftekhar, Jason Lee, Wentao Yuan, Rose Hendrix, Noah A. Smith, Fei Xia, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv 2025
SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
Haoquan Fang, Markus Grotz, Wilbert Pumacay, Yi Ru Wang, Dieter Fox‡, Ranjay Krishna‡, Jiafei Duan‡
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025
Workshop on Robot Learning (WRL) at ICLR 2025 Oral Spotlight
Workshop on Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents (FMEA) at CVPR 2025 Oral Presentation
📖 Professional Services
- Conference Reviewer
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 Workshops
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 Workshops
- Teaching Assistant
- CSE 493G1/599G1: Deep Learning (Spring 2025, Undergrad/Grad)
🎓 Education
- University of Washington, 2022 - 2026 (Expected)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors
Bachelor of Science in Statistics
Minor in Mathematics- GPA: 3.99/4.00 (Straight A in All Courses), Dean’s List (All Quarters & Years)
💼 Industrial Experience
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Apr 2025 - Present
Research Collaborator- Worked with the Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research Team
- Mentored by Prof Ranjay Krishna and Dr Jiafei Duan, Sponsored by Dr Rose Hendrix
- Nokia Shanghai Bell, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Research Engineer Intern- Mentored by Dr Quan Wang, Explored on COSMIC Report Generation