Yiming Dou 窦铱明

I'm a third-year Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, advised by Prof. Andrew Owens. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Antonio Loquercio and Prof. Nima Fazeli.

I received my M.S.E. from the University of Michigan in 2025, before transferring to Cornell. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. and B.Ec. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023, with an honors degree from Zhiyuan College. During my undergrad, I worked with Prof. Ruohan Gao and Prof. Jiajun Wu at Stanford, and Prof. Yong-Lu Li and Prof. Cewu Lu at SJTU.

I mainly work on multisensory learning and robotic manipulation.

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News

  • 10/2026Our paper "Dexterity from Supervised Play" is released on arXiv!
  • 08/2025Our paper "Cross-Sensor Touch Generation" is selected as an oral presentation at CoRL 2025!
  • 08/2025One paper accepted to CoRL 2025! See you in Seoul!
  • 02/2025One paper accepted to CVPR 2025! See you in Nashville!
  • 01/2025Two papers accepted to ICRA 2025! See you in Atlanta!
  • 09/2024Selected as an Outstanding Reviewer for ECCV 2024!
  • 02/2024Three papers accepted to CVPR 2024! See you in Seattle!

Research Interests

Humans perceive the world with multiple senses, based on which we establish abstract concepts to understand it. From the concepts we develop logical reasoning ability, and thus creating brilliant achievements. Inspired by this, my dream is to design human-like multisensory intelligent systems, which can be divided into four specific problems:

  • Multimodal Perception: how to perceive and model the multimodal physical world.
  • Concept Learning: how to abstract the perceived information into high-level concepts.
  • Reasoning: how to perform causal reasoning on the basis of concepts.
  • Robot Learning: how to enable robots to actively interact with the real-world environments and humans.

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

Teaching

Service

  • Conference reviewer: ICRA (2025), ICLR (2025, 2026), AAAI (2025), ECCV (2024, 2026), CVPR (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), ICCV (2023, 2025), ACMMM (2025)
  • Journal reviewer: IEEE RA-L (2025)

Experience

  • Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics

    Applied Scientist Intern

    2026.06 ~ PresentSan Francisco, U.S.

  • Cornell Tech

    Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

    2025.08 ~ PresentNew York, U.S.

    Advisor: Prof. Andrew Owens

  • University of Michigan

    M.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering

    2023.08 ~ 2025.08Ann Arbor, U.S.

    Advisor: Prof. Andrew Owens

    Completed first two years of Ph.D. before transferring to Cornell

  • Stanford University

    Visiting Research Intern

    2022.03 ~ 2023.04Stanford, U.S.

    Supervisor: Prof. Ruohan Gao, Prof. Jiajun Wu and Prof. Fei-Fei Li

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    B.Eng. (Honors) in Computer Science and Technology

    B.Ec. (Minor) in Economics

    2019.09 ~ 2023.06Shanghai, China

    Member of Zhiyuan Honors Program

    Supervisor: Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Yong-Lu Li

Misc.

As a person working on building multisensory systems, I also enjoy being a multisensory embodied agent outside of work:

  • Photography: I've been learning to take photos since I was 7 years old, and have been fortunate to capture some impressive moments along the way. See some of them here!
  • Classical music: I love listening to classical music, especially those from the Viennese Classic period to the Romantic period. (alphabetical order)
  • Tennis: Despite having been playing for 2+ years, I still regard myself as a beginner -- probably around NTRP level 3.0? -- but I really enjoy it and look forward to getting better!