Henry TsaiI am a researcher at UC Berkeley’s EMBER Center, working with Shankar Sastry and Claire Tomlin. I’m part of the joint UC Berkeley-Stanford team in the DARPA TIAMAT competition, where we build self-improving robot agents. I am also a software engineer at Google Cloud, where I build hardware models of TPU servers using the QEMU emulator. Previously, I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2025 with a triple major in Computer Science, Data Science, and Economics. I am applying to robotics PhD programs for 2027. |
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Research |
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Double-T DINER: Deploying Improvements in New Environments via Refined Tool TransferCoRL 2026 Late-Breaking Results & Sim2Real2Field Workshop; under submission website A refiner agent hill-climbs a Spot robot agent’s toolset in simulation, and the improved tools carry over to 220 real-world field trials. |
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Learning to Grasp Anything by Playing with Random ToysICLR, 2026 arxiv / website Training on randomized toys built from four shape primitives lets a robot grasp 64 real-world objects zero-shot, with 67% success on YCB. |
Miscellaneous |
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Autonomous AirdropEECS 106A final project, 2024 website / code We built a fixed-wing drone that flies a planned route and drops a payload on a target by itself, with the first autonomous hit in December 2024. I built the HSV tuner and the image detection pipeline. |
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FTC Team #16236 JuiceSacramento-area education nonprofit, 2019 — present website I founded Juice, a community FIRST Tech Challenge team, which I captained to win the 2020 NorCal Regional Championship in our rookie season and where I currently serve as lead mentor (two playoff runs at the 2023 and 2026 FIRST Championships). |
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