Jiawei Fu | Dexterous Manipulation

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, where I am advised by Prof. Henrik Christensen. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Haoshu Fang and Prof. Haozhi Qi, and was previously advised by Prof. Hao Su. Prior to UCSD, I earned my M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich and my B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (Elite Program) from Tsinghua University.

Previously, I was an intern at Amazon FAR (26 Summer), a research assistant at EPFL (24 Spring), and a research intern at MPI-INF (22 Spring).

Research Interests: My research focuses on dexterous manipulation with robotic hands, with particular interests in tactile data collection and efficient learning of manipulation skills.

Publications

IROS

EgoThumb: A Vision-Driven Supernumerary Robotic Thumb for Autonomous Grasp and Holding Assistance

Jianyu Hou^*, Jiawei Fu^*, Weikang Wan, Minghui Jiang, Jiajun Li, and Hao Su

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

Bib PDF Website

@inproceedings{hou2026egothumb,
  title = {EgoThumb: A Vision-Driven Supernumerary Robotic Thumb for Autonomous Grasp and Holding Assistance},
  author = {Hou, Jianyu and Fu, Jiawei and Wan, Weikang and Jiang, Minghui and Li, Jiajun and Su, Hao},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2026},
}

CORL

LodeStar: Long-horizon Dexterity via Synthetic Data Augmentation from Human Demonstrations

Weikang Wan^*, Jiawei Fu^*, Xiaodi Yuan, Yifeng Zhu, and Hao Su

In 9th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2025

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ECCV

How Far Can a 1-Pixel Camera Go? Solving Vision Tasks Using Photoreceptors and Computationally Designed Visual Morphology

Andrei Atanov^*, Jiawei Fu^*, Rishubh Singh^*, Isabella Yu, Andrew Spielberg, and Amir Zamir

In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024

Bib PDF Poster Website

@inproceedings{atanov2024far,
  title = {How Far Can a 1-Pixel Camera Go? Solving Vision Tasks Using Photoreceptors and Computationally Designed Visual Morphology},
  author = {Atanov, Andrei and Fu, Jiawei and Singh, Rishubh and Yu, Isabella and Spielberg, Andrew and Zamir, Amir},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages = {458--476},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Springer},
}

IROS

Learning deep sensorimotor policies for vision-based autonomous drone racing

Jiawei Fu, Yunlong Song, Yan Wu, Fisher Yu, and Davide Scaramuzza

In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{fu2023learning,
  title = {Learning deep sensorimotor policies for vision-based autonomous drone racing},
  author = {Fu, Jiawei and Song, Yunlong and Wu, Yan and Yu, Fisher and Scaramuzza, Davide},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {5243--5250},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
}