curriculum vitae

Basics

Full Name Heqing Yang
Affiliation School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University
Advisor Prof. Si Liu (co-advisor Prof. Linjiang Huang)
Email yangheqing@buaa.edu.cn
Location Beijing, China

Education

  • 2024 – Present
    Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
    Beihang University, Beijing
    • Advised by Prof. Si Liu; co-advised by Prof. Linjiang Huang.
  • 2019 – 2024
    B.S. in Software Engineering
    Beihang University, Beijing
    • GPA 3.93/4.0 (rank 8/187).

Experience

  • 2025.10 – present
    Research Intern
    Meituan LongCat Team
    • Robot foundation models.
  • 2024.03 – 2025.01
    Research Intern
    BIGAI (Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence)
    • Long-horizon robot task planning on 3D scene graphs — first-author ICRA 2026 submission (EPoG).
  • 2020.12 – 2023.09
    Team Leader — BRBOTS humanoid biped project
    BUAA Robotics Team
    • 18-DoF humanoid biped built end-to-end across two hardware iterations (mechanical, electronics, firmware, software).
    • 2nd Prize (top-4), RoboCup Asia-Pacific Championship.

Selected Projects

  • EPoG — Long-horizon task planner on 3D scene graphs
    • Graph-edit planner with LLM-guided heuristic that fuses task- and motion-level reasoning; 91.3% success rate on 5 long-horizon transport tasks across 46 ProcThor-10k scenes.
    • Validated on a physical mobile manipulator handling unknown object states and runtime exceptions in real, dynamic environments.
  • CR-Solver — GPU-accelerated kinematics for continuum robots
    • Unified nonlinear-optimization framework for IK, path following, and trajectory planning; pure Python/JAX with GPU parallelism.
    • > 95% success rate with millimeter-level accuracy.
  • EVA-Client — Unified framework for deployment, evaluation, and data collection on real robots
    • One policy, any robot — a smooth all-in-one real-robot stack. Debug, record, evaluate, and visualize entirely in the browser.
    • Drives an AgileX bimanual arm end-to-end (teleop → record → π₀ checkpoint → smooth async deploy) on real hardware.
  • BRBOTS — 18-DoF humanoid biped robot
    • Team leader across two hardware iterations; hardware, electronics, firmware, ROS stack, gait planner, particle-filter visual localization.
    • 2nd Prize (top-4), RoboCup Asia-Pacific Championship.

Awards

  • 2nd place (2/62), RoCo Challenge @ AAAI 2026, 2026
  • 1st Prize, RoboCon, 2021 & 2022
  • 2nd Prize (top-4), RoboCup Asia-Pacific Championship, 2021
  • Finalist, U.S. MCM/ICM Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2021

Research Interests

  • Embodied AI · Robot task and motion planning
  • Open-vocabulary perception
  • Continuum / soft-robot kinematics
  • Active perception for legged robots