Qiayuan Liao

Qiayuan Liao is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Koushil Sreenath and Pieter Abbeel. His research focuses on agile and robust locomotion and manipulation for robots, spanning novel mechanism design, data-driven co-design, and the unification of learning with planning, estimation, and control. He is best known for developing BeyondMimic, a framework for versatile humanoid whole-body control via guided diffusion, and the Berkeley Humanoid research platform, as well as several widely used open-source robotics control libraries.