Guanya Shi 石冠亚

I am an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I lead the LeCAR (Learning and Control for Agile Robotics) Lab. I am also an Amazon Scholar in the Frontier AI & Robotics team.

I completed my Ph.D. in 2022 from Caltech. I received a B.E. from Tsinghua University in 2017. Before joining CMU in 2023 Sep, I was a postdoc in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

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My research interests are broadly in the intersection of AI, robotics, and control, spanning the entire spectrum from theory and foundations, algorithm design, to real-world general-purpose robotic systems such as humanoids. I develop reliable, adaptive, and efficient learning and control methods for generalist robots with agility. See my publications and research topics for more details.

• 2025 Spring: 16-831 Introduction to Robot Learning
• 2024 Fall: 16-831 Introduction to Robot Learning, 16-665 Robot Mobility on Air, Land, & Sea (co-teaching)
• 2024 Spring: 16-831 Introduction to Robot Learning
• 2023 Fall: 16-665 Robot Mobility on Air, Land, & Sea (co-teaching)

• 2025 Summer: From Sim2Real 1.0 to 4.0 for Humanoid Whole-Body Control and Loco-Manipulation (ICRA'25 and CVPR'25 workshops, CVPR'25 Robotics 101 Tutorial, Caltech)
• 2025 Spring: Building Generalist Robots with Agility via Learning and Control: Humanoids and Beyond (CMU RI Seminar, Michigan AI Symposium, ETH Zurich Robotics, Vision, and Controls Talks)
• 2024 Fall: Unifying Semantic and Physical Intelligence for Generalist Humanoid Robots (Georgia Tech IRIM Seminar)
• 2023 Fall: New faculty lighting talk at CMU SCS

I love playing basketball, soccer and MOBA games. I am also very interested in photography, hiking, travelling and cooking. Here are some photos taken by me.

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