About me
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at Northeastern University under the supervision of Prof. Alireza Ramezani. My research interests lie at the intersection of optimal control, deep learning, locomotion, and hardware. My long-term goal is to investigate action, perception, and learning as an integrated loop, developing agile, robust controls for polyarticular mechanisms thus achieve human-level athletic intelligence.
News
June 15, 2025 - Two paper accepted by IROS2025.
June 5, 2025 - One paper accepted by RA-L.
May 5, 2025 - Start my internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories(MERL).
Jan 16, 2025 - Three paper accepted by ACC 2025 including one Oral.
Dec 11, 2024 - Passed the qualification exam. I am now officially a PhD candidate!
Sep 9, 2024 - One paper accepted by Humanoid 2024.
Sep 5, 2024 - One paper accepted by CoRL 2024.
Jul 13, 2024 - Received student travel award from AIM 2024.
Apr 21, 2024 - Two paper accepted by AIM 2024.
Jan 22, 2024 - One paper accepted by ACC 2024.
Publications
C. Wang and A. Ramezani, "Thruster-Enhanced Locomotion: A Decoupled Model Predictive Control with Learned Contact Residuals," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, October 19–25, 2025.
C. Wang, K. V. Krishnamurthy, S. Pitroda, A. Salagame, I. Mandralis, E. Sihite, A. Ramezani, and M. Gharib, "Dynamic Quadrupedal Legged and Aerial Locomotion via Structure Repurposing," 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, October 19–25, 2025.
M. Jia, H. Huang, Z. Zhang, C. Wang, L. Zhao, D. Wang, J. X. Liu, R. Walters, R. Platt, and S. Tellex, "Learning Efficient and Robust Language-conditioned Manipulation using Textual-Visual Relevancy and Equivariant Language Mapping," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
C. Wang, E. Sihite, K. V. Krishnamurthy, S. Pitroda, A. Salagame, A. Ramezani, and M. Gharib, "Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways," 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, June 4-6, 2025.
K. V. Krishnamurthy, C. Wang, S. Pitroda, A. Salagame, E. Sihite, A. Ramezani*, and M. Gharib, "Thruster-Assisted Incline Walking of a Legged-Aerial Robot Using Reduced Order Model and Collocation Method," 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, June 4-6, 2025.
S. Pitroda, E. Sihite, K. V. Krishnamurthy, C. Wang, A. Salagame, A. Ramezani*, and M. Gharib, "Conjugate momentum based thruster force estimate in dynamic multimodal robot," 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, June 4-6, 2025.
E. Sihite, S. Pitroda, T. Liu, C. Wang, K. V. Krishnamurthy, A. Salagame, A. Ramezani, and M. Gharib, "Posture manipulation of thruster-enhanced bipedal robot performing dynamic wall-jumping using model predictive control," 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France, November 22-24, 2024.
B. Hu, X. Zhu*, D. Wang*, Z. Dong*, H. Huang*, C. Wang*, R. Walters, and R. Platt, "OrbitGrasp: SE(3)-Equivariant Grasp Learning," 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Munich, Germany, November 6-9, 2024.
K. V. Krishnamurthy, C. Wang, S. Pitroda, A. Salagame, E. Sihite, R. Nemovi, A. Ramezani, M. Gharib, “Narrow-Path, Dynamic Walking Using Integrated Posture Manipulation and Thrust Vectoring,” IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Boston, MA, July 15-18, 2024
S. Pitroda, A. Bondada, K. Venkatesh, A. Salagame, C. Wang, E. Sihite, R. Nemovi, A. Ramezani, and M. Gharib, “Capture Point Control in Thruster Assisted Bipedal Locomotion,” IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Boston, MA, July 15-18, 2024
A. Salagame, M. Gianello, C. Wang, K. Venkatesh, S. Pitroda, R. Rajput, E. Sihite, M. Leeser, A. Ramezani, “Quadrupedal Locomotion Control On Inclined Surfaces Using Collocation Method,” American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, July 8-12, 2024
Wang, C. Legged Walking on Inclined Surfaces, Northeastern University, United States -- Massachusetts, 2023. ProQuest [Thesis]
M. Jia, H. Huang, Z. Zhang, C. Wang, L. Zhao, D. Wang, J. X. Liu, R. Walters, R. Platt, and S. Tellex, "Equivariant Open-vocabulary Pick and Place via Language Kernels and Patch-level Semantic Maps," 2024 RSS Workshop on Task Specification for General-Purpose Intelligent Robots, Delft, Netherlands, July 19, 2024. [Workshop]
Wang, C., E. Emanuel, K. V. Krishnamurthy, E. Sihite, A. Ramezani, “Introducing Husky Beta: A morpho-functional quadruped with aerial capabilities,” Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC), MA, United States, Oct. 8, 2022 [Workshop]