I am a robotics researcher at ByteDance Seed. Previously, I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Mingguo Zhao.

My research interests lie in humanoid robots, particularly the integration of locomotion and manipulation.

📝 Publications

Preprint

Yushi Wang, Changsheng Luo, Penghui Chen, Jianran Liu, Weijian Sun, Tong Guo, Kechang Yang, Biao Hu, Yangang Zhang, Mingguo Zhao. Learning Vision-Driven Reactive Soccer Skills for Humanoid Robots. arXiv Preprint. 2025. [Paper] [Website]

IROS 2025

Penghui Chen, Yushi Wang, Changsheng Luo, Wenhan Cai, Mingguo Zhao. HiFAR: Multi-Stage Curriculum Learning for High-Dynamics Humanoid Fall Recovery. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2025. [Paper] [Website]

ICRA 2025

Yushi Wang, Ruoqu Chen, Mingguo Zhao. Whole-Body Model Predictive Control for Mobile Manipulation with Task Priority Transition. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2025. [Paper] [Website]

Humanoids 2024

Yanbo Pang, Qingkai Li, Yushi Wang, Mingguo Zhao. CBMC-V2: A CNS-inspired Framework for Real-time Robotic Arm Control. IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2024. [Paper]

Biomimetics

Qingkai Li, Yanbo Pang, Yushi Wang, Xinyu Han, Qing Li, Mingguo Zhao. CBMC: A Biomimetic Approach for Control of a 7-Degree of Freedom Robotic Arm. Biomimetics 2023. [Paper]

ICIRA 2023

Yushi Wang, Yanbo Pang, Qingkai Li, Wenhan Cai, Mingguo Zhao. Trajectory Tracking Control for Robot Manipulator Under Dynamic Environment. International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications 2023. [Paper]

🛠 Projects

Booster Gym: An End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Robot Locomotion

[Paper] [Website] [Code]

Team Tsinghua Hephaestus

1st Place, Large Size Humanoid Soccer League, RoboCup 2026
1st Place, Large Size Humanoid Soccer League, RoboCup China Open 2026
1st Place, 5v5 Soccer, 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games [News]
1st Place, Adult Size Humanoid Soccer League, RoboCup 2025 [News]
1st Place, Adult Size Humanoid Soccer League, RoboCup German Open 2025 [News]

🎖 Honors and Awards

2026.06, Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Award (top 4%)
2025.11, National Scholarship for Graduate Students (top 1%)
2023.06, Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Thesis (top 5%)
2023.06, Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Award (top 10%)
2020.12, National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students (top 1%)

📖 Educations

2023.09 - 2026.06, Master, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
2019.08 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, Department of Automation, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China.
2014.09 - 2019.06, Yaohua High School, Tianjin, China.

💻 Internships

2025.01 - 2026.06, Robotics Research Intern, ByteDance Seed, Beijing, China.
2024.06 - 2024.12, Robotics Research Intern, Booster Robotics, Beijing, China.
2022.06 - 2022.09, Robotics Research Intern, Mech-Mind Robotics, Beijing, China.

🧑‍💻 Services

2024.09 - 2024.12, Teaching Assistant, Humanoid Robots, Tsinghua University.
2022.09 - 2022.12, Teaching Assistant, Calculus A, Tsinghua University.
2020.09 - 2022.12, Outstanding Volunteer, Drop-in Tutoring, Tsinghua University.