Zewen He | 何 泽文

Robotics Researcher

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MBZUAI, Masdar City,

Abu Dhabi, UAE

I am Zewen He (何 泽文), now a Postdoctoral Associate at MBZUAI working with Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura. I obtained the PhD degree at the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Yamamoto Ko and Prof. Takanori Fukao from 2020 to 2024. Before that, I obtained the master degree at Beijing Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Aiguo Ming and Prof. Qiang Huang.

My research interest is AI for robotics, specifically humanoid robots. During my PhD, my research focused on model-based control based on the rigid-soft hybrid model. In my current work, I focus on RL-based locomotion and compliance control for humanoid robots.

news

Oct 03, 2024 Starting today, I am joining MBZUAI as a postdoctoral researcher.
Sep 20, 2024 Today, I was awarded a Ph.D. degree by the University of Tokyo! :smile:

selected publications

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    Modeling and control of a rigid-soft hybrid-link humanoid robot
    Zewen He, Taiki Ishigaki, and Ko Yamamoto
    Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2026
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    Task-Specified Compliance Bounds for Humanoids via Lipschitz-Constrained Policies
    Zewen He and Yoshihiko Nakamura
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16180, 2026
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    CoTaP: Compliant Task Pipeline and Reinforcement Learning of Its Controller with Compliance Modulation
    Zewen He, Chenyuan Chen, Dilshod Azizov, and Yoshihiko Nakamura
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25443, 2025
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    Compliance optimization control for rigid-soft hybrid system and its application in humanoid robot motion control
    Zewen He, Taiki Ishigaki, and Ko Yamamoto
    In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024