Jiahui Fu

Jiahui FU 付佳慧

I am a Research Scientist at the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) (formerly Boston Dynamics AI Institute). I received my Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL in 2023, advised by Prof. John Leonard. Prior to that, I obtained my M.S. from the University of Michigan in 2018, and my B.Eng. from Zhejiang University in 2017. I was a research intern at Meta Reality Labs, working with Yuichi Taguchi in 2021 and Shichao Yang in 2022.

My research focuses on building robots that see, predict, and act by linking deep spatial perception with autonomous manipulation. During my PhD, I developed object-centric 3D representations and neural implicit models for long-term SLAM, enabling robots to maintain persistent, object-aware understanding of changing environments. Recently, I have been leveraging this spatial foundation to treat video generative models as predictive world models for zero-shot robotic manipulation. By grounding high-level visual foresight into physical interaction, my current work develops frameworks that translate generative "commonsense" into robust, closed-loop robot execution.

Publications (* equal contribution)

NovaPlan
NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning
NovaFlow
NovaFlow: Zero‑Shot Manipulation via Actionable Flow from Generated Videos
NeuSE IJRR
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)‑Equivariant Embedding for Long‑Term Object‑based SLAM
NeuSE RSS
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)‑Equivariant Embedding for Consistent Spatial Understanding with Objects
NDF Change Detection
Robust Change Detection based on Neural Descriptor Fields
PlaneSDF
PlaneSDF‑Based Change Detection for Long‑Term Dense Mapping
Multi-Hypothesis
A Multi‑Hypothesis Approach to Pose Ambiguity in Object‑Based SLAM

During my undergrad, I also worked on battery control and smart grid optimization. Feel free to check them out!

VRFB
Dynamic Control Strategy for the Electrolyte Flow Rate of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
Tao Wang, Jiahui Fu, Menglian Zheng, Zitao Yu
VRFB Optimization
Flow‑Rate Optimization and Economic Analysis of VRFBs in a Load‑Shifting Application
Jiahui Fu, Menglian Zheng, Xinhao Wang, Jie Sun, Tao Wang
VRFB Dynamic
Dynamic Flow Rate Control for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
Jiahui Fu, Tao Wang, Xinhao Wang, Jie Sun, Menglian Zheng

Service

Reviewer

  • International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA‑L)
  • Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

Teaching

16.002 Unified Engineering: Signals and Systems
Teaching Assistant · MIT · Fall 2021
2.678 Electronics for Mechanical Systems
Teaching Assistant · MIT · Spring 2019