Guanya Shi

“Shi is a rising figure in robot learning and control theory, with prior work on flow-based policies.”

“Guanya Shi1,3† (Author Affiliations)”

“Listed as equal advising contributor.”

“Expert in robot learning and control. His lab provided the physical infrastructure and fleet architecture for the experiments.”

“The paper lists Amazon FAR (Fundamental AI Research) as a co-affiliation of all four authors (title page). This is an Amazon-affiliated research output, signaling Amazon's investment in dexterous physical AI capabilities.”

“Mana achieves zero-shot sim-to-real transfer — no real-world demonstration data was collected. The full pipeline generates training data in simulation, trains a visuomotor policy, and deploys directly on a physical Allegro hand.”

“Guanya Shi holds concurrent appointments as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and as an Amazon Scholar.”