Tianyu Li

Tianyu Li 黎天宇

I am a Founding Scientist at Dexmate. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. My research focuses on Agentic Robotics and Robot Whole-body Control.

There are a few folks that own the same name, such as Tianyu Li@MIT and Tianyu Li@UPENN, please make sure you contact the correct Tianyu Li.

Experience

Employment

  1. Dexmate

    Dexmate

    Founding Scientist

    2025 — Present

  2. Meta

    FAIR @ Meta

    Researcher

    2024

  3. Facebook

    FAIR @ Facebook

    Research Scientist

    2019 — 2021

Education

  1. Georgia Tech

    Georgia Tech

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Advisor: Prof. Sehoon Ha

    Thesis: Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Skill Imitation

    2022 — 2025

  2. CMU

    Carnegie Mellon University

    M.S. in Computational Science

    Advisors: Prof. Hartmut Geyer, Prof. Chris Atkeson

    2017 — 2018

  3. Beihang University

    Beihang University

    B.E. in Energy and Power Engineering

    2013 — 2017

Publications

Switch-JustDance: Benchmarking Whole-Body Motion Tracking Policies Using a Commercial Console Game

CVPR Findings, 2026

Jeonghwan Kim*, Wontaek Kim*, Yidan Lu*, Jin Cheng*, Fatemeh Zargarbashi*, Zicheng Zeng*, Zekun Qi*, Zhiyang Dou, Nitish Sontakke, Donghoon Baek, Sehoon Ha, Tianyu Li

Switch4EAI: Leveraging Console Game Platform for Benchmarking Robotic Athletics

CoRL Workshop, 2025

Tianyu Li, Jeonghwan Kim, Wontaek Kim, Donghoon Baek, Seungeun Rho, Sehoon Ha

Learning Physical Interaction Skills from Human Demonstrations

Arxiv, 2025

Tianyu Li, Hengbo Ma, Sehoon Ha, Kwonjoon Lee

RobotMover: Learning to Move Large Objects by Imitating the Dynamic Chain

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2026

Tianyu Li, Joanne Truong, Jimmy Yang, Alexander Clegg, Akshara Rai, Sehoon Ha, Xavier Puig

Language Guided Skill Discovery

ICLR, 2025

Seungeun Rho, Laura Smith, Tianyu Li, Sergey Levine, Xue Bin Peng, Sehoon Ha

AAMDM: Accelerated Auto-regressive Motion Diffusion Model

CVPR, 2024

Tianyu Li, Zhuhan Qiao, Guanqiao Ren, KangKang Yin, Sehoon Ha

CrossLoco: Human Motion Driven Control of Legged Robots via Guided Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

ICLR, 2024

Tianyu Li, Hyunyoung Jung, Matthew Gombolay, Yong Kwon Cho, Sehoon Ha

ACE: Adversarial Correspondence Embedding for Cross Morphology Motion Retargeting from Human to Nonhuman Characters

SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2023

Tianyu Li, Jungdam Won, Alexander Clegg, Jeonghwan Kim, Akshara Rai, Sehoon Ha

TWiLR

Learning and Adapting Agile Locomotion Skills by Transferring Experience

RSS, 2023

Laura Smith, J Chase Kew, Tianyu Li, Linda Luu, Xue Bin Peng, Sehoon Ha, Jie Tan, Sergey Levine

RA-L

Planning in Learned Latent Action Spaces for Generalizable Legged Locomotion

RA-L, 2021

Tianyu Li, Roberto Calandra, Deepak Pathak, Yuandong Tian, Franziska Meier, Akshara Rai

ICRA 2020

Learning Generalizable Locomotion Skills with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

ICRA, 2020

Tianyu Li, Nathan Lambert, Roberto Calandra, Franziska Meier, Akshara Rai

IROS 2020

Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings

IROS, 2020

Joanne Truong, Denis Yarats, Tianyu Li, Franziska Meier, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai

CoRL 2019

Bayesian Optimization in Variational Latent Spaces with Dynamic Compression

CoRL, 2019

Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Tianyu Li, Danica Kragic

ATRIAS

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Learn High-Level Policies on the ATRIAS Biped

ICRA, 2019

Tianyu Li, Hartmut Geyer, Christopher G Atkeson, Akshara Rai