Chendi Qu (屈晨迪)

Welcome to my personal website!

I’m a final year PhD student from the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jianping He and Prof. Xiaoming Duan in IWIN-FINS Lab. I received my B.E. degree advised by Prof. Yilin Mo in the Department of Automation from Tsinghua University, China, in 2021. I’m going to join AgiBot Research, working on VLA post-training and RL fine-tuning.

My research background lies in the intersection of optimal control and optimization. During my Phd, I mainly focus on learning from demonstrations (inverse optimal control) applied for robots. I dedicate to build a bridge between optimal control and reinforcement learning communities as a long-term goal.

Always open to any potential collaboration. Please feel free to reach out!!

Contact me: qucd21[at]sjtu[dot]edu[dot]cn

Updates

2026 Jan: Our paper on unpredictable optimal control is accepted by Automatica as a full paper!
2026 Jan: We propose a scalable online post-training framework: SOP for general-purpose, high-performance VLA!
2025 Sep: I started an internship at AgiBot Research Center mentored by Dr. Jianlan Luo
2025 Jul: My paper on model selection for inverse RL is accepted by IEEE CDC 2025!
2024 Dec: I went to CDC in Milan, Italy and received the IEEE CSS Graduate Collaboration Fellowship Award (top 10 worldwide)! Congrats!!
2024 Dec: I won the 2024 SJTU Zhengyang SEIEE Scholarship!
2024 Sep: My paper on the inverse optimal control is accepted by IEEE TAC!
2024 Aug: I started a visit in UCSD SOC-lab advised by Prof. Yang Zheng.
2023 Dec: I completed my dissertation proposal.
2023 Dec: My first journal is accepted by IEEE TAC.
2023 Oct: My personal website is online.