Tianchong Jiang

I am a third-year PhD student at TTIC, advised by Matthew Walter. I am broadly interested in robotic manipulation and related problems in machine learning. Before starting my PhD, I completed my B.S. and B.A. at the University of Chicago.

news

Sep 2026	What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation? was accepted to CoRL 2026 and the IROS 2026 RGMCW workshop, where it received the Best Abstract Award.
Jun 2026	Started a summer research internship at Ludo Robotics, working on sim-to-real transfer for humanoid robots.
Jun 2026	Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? received the ICRA 2026 Best Paper Award on Robot Learning.
Jan 2026	Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? and HapCompass were accepted to ICRA 2026.
Jun 2025	PROGRESSOR accepted to ICCV 2025, and StackGen accepted to IROS 2025.

CoRL

What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?

Tianchong Jiang , Xiangshan Tan^*, Samuel Wheeler^*, Luzhe Sun^*, Tewodros W. Ayalew^*, and Matthew Walter

project page | arXiv | pdf | code | bib

CoRL 2026 (To Appear)

also IROS 2026 RGMCW workshop (Best Abstract Award).

@inproceedings{jiang2026benchmarking,
  title = {What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?},
  author = {Jiang, Tianchong and Tan, Xiangshan and Wheeler, Samuel and Sun, Luzhe and Ayalew, Tewodros W. and Walter, Matthew},
  booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICRA

Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning

Tianchong Jiang , Jingtian Ji, Xiangshan Tan, Jiading Fang, Anand Bhattad, Vitor Guizilini^†, and Matthew R. Walter^†

ICRA 2026 (Best Paper Award on Robot Learning)

@inproceedings{jiang2026camera,
  title = {Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning},
  author = {Jiang, Tianchong and Ji, Jingtian and Tan, Xiangshan and Fang, Jiading and Bhattad, Anand and Guizilini, Vitor and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2026},
}

2026

arXiv

Ludi 0.1: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots

Wooseong Chung, William Cong, Jakub Dworakowski, Ethan Ewer, Tri Wahyu Guntara, Yeonwoo Jeong, Tianchong Jiang , Chaewon Kim, Hyunseo Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Jinyeon Kim, Yea-Seul Kim, Jack Kunde, Kangwook Lee, Sangheon Lee, Robert Nowak, and Junha Roh

project page | arXiv | pdf | bib

arXiv 2026

@article{ludo2026ludi,
  title = {Ludi 0.1: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots},
  author = {Chung, Wooseong and Cong, William and Dworakowski, Jakub and Ewer, Ethan and Guntara, Tri Wahyu and Jeong, Yeonwoo and Jiang, Tianchong and Kim, Chaewon and Kim, Hyunseo and Kim, Jinwoo and Kim, Jinyeon and Kim, Yea-Seul and Kunde, Jack and Lee, Kangwook and Lee, Sangheon and Nowak, Robert and Roh, Junha},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.22035},
  year = {2026},
}

CoRL

What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?

Tianchong Jiang , Xiangshan Tan^*, Samuel Wheeler^*, Luzhe Sun^*, Tewodros W. Ayalew^*, and Matthew Walter

project page | arXiv | pdf | code | bib

CoRL 2026 (To Appear)

also IROS 2026 RGMCW workshop (Best Abstract Award).

@inproceedings{jiang2026benchmarking,
  title = {What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?},
  author = {Jiang, Tianchong and Tan, Xiangshan and Wheeler, Samuel and Sun, Luzhe and Ayalew, Tewodros W. and Walter, Matthew},
  booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICRA

Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning

Tianchong Jiang , Jingtian Ji, Xiangshan Tan, Jiading Fang, Anand Bhattad, Vitor Guizilini^†, and Matthew R. Walter^†

ICRA 2026 (Best Paper Award on Robot Learning)

@inproceedings{jiang2026camera,
  title = {Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning},
  author = {Jiang, Tianchong and Ji, Jingtian and Tan, Xiangshan and Fang, Jiading and Bhattad, Anand and Guizilini, Vitor and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICRA

HapCompass: A Rotational Haptic Device for Contact-Rich Robotic Teleoperation

Xiangshan Tan, Jingtian Ji, Tianchong Jiang , Pedro Lopes, and Matthew R. Walter

ICRA 2026

@inproceedings{tan2026hapcompass,
  title = {HapCompass: A Rotational Haptic Device for Contact-Rich Robotic Teleoperation},
  author = {Tan, Xiangshan and Ji, Jingtian and Jiang, Tianchong and Lopes, Pedro and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2026},
}

2025

ICCV

PROGRESSOR: A Perceptually Guided Reward Estimator with Self-Supervised Online Refinement

Tewodros Ayalew, Xiao Zhang^*, Kevin Yuanbo Wu^*, Tianchong Jiang , Michael Maire, and Matthew R. Walter

ICCV 2025

@inproceedings{ayalew2025progressor,
  title = {PROGRESSOR: A Perceptually Guided Reward Estimator with Self-Supervised Online Refinement},
  author = {Ayalew, Tewodros and Zhang, Xiao and Wu, Kevin Yuanbo and Jiang, Tianchong and Maire, Michael and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year = {2025},
}

IROS

StackGen: Generating Stable Structures from Silhouettes via Diffusion

Luzhe Sun^*, Takuma Yoneda^*, Samuel W. Wheeler, Tianchong Jiang , and Matthew R. Walter

project page | arXiv | pdf | bib

IROS 2025

@inproceedings{sun2025stackgen,
  title = {StackGen: Generating Stable Structures from Silhouettes via Diffusion},
  author = {Sun, Luzhe and Yoneda, Takuma and Wheeler, Samuel W. and Jiang, Tianchong and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247239},
}

2024

ICRA

Statler: State-maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning

Takuma Yoneda^*, Jiading Fang^*, Peng Li^*, Huanyu Zhang^*, Tianchong Jiang , Shengjie Lin, Ben Picker, David Yunis, Hongyuan Mei, and Matthew R. Walter

project page | arXiv | pdf | code | bib

ICRA 2024

@inproceedings{yoneda2024statler,
  title = {Statler: State-maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning},
  author = {Yoneda, Takuma and Fang, Jiading and Li, Peng and Zhang, Huanyu and Jiang, Tianchong and Lin, Shengjie and Picker, Ben and Yunis, David and Mei, Hongyuan and Walter, Matthew R.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610634},
}

2023

arXiv

6-DoF Stability Field via Diffusion Models

Takuma Yoneda^*, Tianchong Jiang^* , Gregory Shakhnarovich, and Matthew R. Walter

arXiv | pdf | bib

arXiv 2023

@article{yoneda2023sixdof,
  title = {6-DoF Stability Field via Diffusion Models},
  author = {Yoneda, Takuma and Jiang, Tianchong and Shakhnarovich, Gregory and Walter, Matthew R.},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17649},
  year = {2023},
}