Alexis (Yihong) Hao

Hi! I am Alexis. I'm a research assistant at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Zackory Erickson and Prof. David Held. I completed my undergrad in Computer Science and Psychology at Cornell University in May 2024.

My research interest lies in enabling robots to learn from and adapt to new environments, while working reliably alongside humans. I am especially interested in bridging robot learning algorithms with real-world robotic systems. Currently, I am working on sim2real adaptation for multi-modal learning for robot assisted dressing.

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Email: ahao@andrew.cmu.edu

Publications

Force-Modulated Visual Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Arm Motions
Alexis Yihong Hao, Yufei Wang, Navin Sriram Ravie, Bharath Hegde, David Held†, Zackory Erickson† († equal advising)
CoRL, 2025
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TL;DR: A robot-assisted dressing adapts simulation-trained vision with real-world multi-modal feedback, validated in 264 trials with 12 users.

Second paper thumbnail EchoSpeech: Continuous Silent Speech Recognition on Minimally-obtrusive Eyewear Powered by Acoustic Sensing
Ruidong Zhang, Ke Li, Yihong Hao, Yufan Wang, Zhengnan Lai, François Guimbretière, Cheng Zhang
CHI, 2023
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TL;DR: A pair of smart glasses that can recognize both discrete and continuous silent speeches.


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