Yikai Tang

MS in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University · B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University · previously Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley

About

Hi there! 👋 I am Yikai Tang, a Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley (BAIR). During my undergrad years, I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jitendra Malik and Prof. Yunbo Wang. My research interests mainly lie in Robot Learning, where I focus on building reliable, generalizable and modality-rich robot policies that can be applied to real-world scenarios.

Publications

DIPOLE: Fusing Vision and Geometry for Robust Visuomotor Generalization

Yikai Tang^*, Haoran Geng^*, Jindou Jia, Yuxuan Hu, Sheng Zang, Jianfei Yang^†, Pieter Abbeel^†, Jitendra Malik^†
^* equal contribution, ^† equal advising

arXiv PDF Code Project

ISF-VLA: An Implicit 3D Vision-Language-Action Model Capitalizing on 3D-Aware Vision Foundation Models through Implicit Spatial Fusion

Sheng Zang, Songlin Wei, Haoran Geng, Yikai Tang, Bo An^†, Senthilnath Jayavelu^†, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik
^† corresponding author

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026

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RoST3R: Robot-Aware Dynamic 3D Reconstruction from RGB Input for Robotic Manipulation

Yanbing Han, Haoran Geng, Junyi Zhang, Ziyu Chen, Yikai Tang, Charlie Cheng, Peihao Li, Trevor Darrell, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, YUE WANG

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