Yiming (Alvin) Bao | εŒ…δΈ€ιΈ£

Undergraduate, Tsinghua University DCST

Ciao! I am an Undergraduate at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. I am currently a Research Intern at Harvard SEAS and Kempner Institute, where I am fortunate to work with Prof. Heng Yang and Prof. Qianqian Wang. Previously I was working at Tsinghua Embodied AI Lab (TEA Lab) affiliated to Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University under the supervision of Prof. Huazhe Xu.

News

2026.07 I am joining Harvard Computational Robotics Group and Harvard Vision and Learning Lab.

2026.06 I have finished my internship at ByteDance Seed Robotics. Great Thanks to my mentors and colleagues!

2026.04 DexImit is accepted to RSS 2026! πŸŽ‰

2026.03 UniDex is accepted to CVPR 2026! πŸŽ‰

Hobbies

I'm really passionate about fitness. In my spare time, I enjoy going to the gym πŸ‹οΈβ€β™‚οΈ, playing golf ⛳️ and basketball πŸ€, playing tennis 🎾, hiking πŸ₯Ύβ›°οΈ, and traveling ✈️🌍.
Besides, I also love reading novels πŸ“š, listening to piano music, Chinese folk songs, and rock. 🎡.

Research Goal

My long-term research goal is to develop robots with human-level versatility in perception, reasoning, and manipulation, ultimately enhancing everyday life at scale.

My current research focuses on dexterous manipulation, with an emphasis on leveraging human data to address the representation gap and data scarcity that limit today's multi-finger manipulation systems. I pursue this along two complementary tracks:

1
Real-to-sim & sim-to-real transfer

Reconstructing human demonstrations in simulation to generate scalable, physically grounded robot training data.

DexImit Do As I Do
2
Direct learning from human data

Using large-scale human hand–object interaction data to close the embodiment and representation gap for dexterous manipulation policies.

UniDex EgoScale

Publications and preprints

Papers sorted by recency. Representative papers are highlighted.

DexImit: Learning Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Human Videos
Juncheng Mu*, Sizhe Yang*, Yiming Bao, Hojin Bae, Tianming Wei, Linning Xu, Boyi Li, Huazhe Xu, Jiangmiao Pang
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026
project page / arxiv / bibtex
UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos
Gu Zhang*, Qicheng Xu*, [...], Yiming Bao*, [...], Yang Gao, Hao Zhao, Hang Zhao, Huazhe Xu (19 authors)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
project page / arxiv / code

Affiliations

Contact

You are welcome to contact me regarding my research and other interesting stuff! My email is bao-ym23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn