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Pingchuan Ma

Ph.D. Student, MIT CSAIL
Email: pcma (at) csail.mit.edu
Office: MIT Stata Center 32-321
Biography
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Pingchuan Ma (馬平川) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Previously, he worked with Prof. Bo Ren and Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng at Nankai University.
Name

Family name: 馬(Mǎ) means horse.

Given name: 平(Píng) 川(chuān) means flat and level ground without geographical barrier.

Quoted from a Chinese idiom 一(yī) 馬(mǎ) 平(píng) 川(chuān) , my full name means the flat ground that one can ride straight across and thus implies enjoying a smooth life.

眾(zhòng) 峰(fēng) 來(lái) 自(zì) 天(tiān) 目(mù) 山(shān) ， 勢(shì) 若(ruò) 駿(jùn) 馬(mǎ) 奔(bèn) 平(píng) 川(chuān) 。

There are lots of mountains from Tianmu Mountain, which have the might of fine horses galloping across flat ground.

Publications
[* indicates equal contribution]
[SoftZoo]
SoftZoo: A Soft Robot Co-design Benchmark For Locomotion In Diverse Environments
Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Pingchuan Ma, Andrew Spielberg, Zhou Xian, Hao Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniela Rus, and Chuang Gan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
[OpenReview]
[RISP]
RISP: Rendering-Invariant State Predictor with Differentiable Simulation and Rendering for Cross-Domain Parameter Estimation
Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Wojciech Matusik, and Chuang Gan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 [Oral]
[Project Page] [Paper] [OpenReview] [MIT News]
[DiffPD]
DiffPD: Differentiable Projective Dynamics
Tao Du, Kui Wu, Pingchuan Ma, Sebastien Wah, Andrew Spielberg, and Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2022
[Project Page] [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Slides]
[DiffAqua]
DiffAqua: A Differentiable Computational Design Pipeline for Soft Underwater Swimmers with Shape Interpolation
Pingchuan Ma, Tao Du, John Z. Zhang, Kui Wu, Andrew Spielberg, Robert K. Katzschmann, and Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2021
[Project Page] [Paper] [Code] [Video]
[CPMTL]
Efficient Continuous Pareto Exploration in Multi-Task Learning
Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, and Wojciech Matusik
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
[Project Page] [Paper] [Code] [Talk] [Slides]
[PGMORL]
Prediction-Guided Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Robot Control
Jie Xu, Yunsheng Tian, Pingchuan Ma, Daniela Rus, Shinjiro Sueda, and Wojciech Matusik
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
[Project Page] [Paper] [Code] [Video]
[RLFluid]
Fluid Directed Rigid Body Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pingchuan Ma*, Yunsheng Tian*, Zherong Pan, Bo Ren, and Dinesh Manocha
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2018
[Project Page] [Paper] [Video]
Preprints
[* indicates equal contribution]
[VSN]
Learning Efficient Video Representation with Video Shuffle Networks
Pingchuan Ma*, Yao Zhou*, Yu Lu, and Wei Zhang
arXiv preprint, 2019
[arXiv] [Paper] [Appendix]
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Minor in Finance
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. in Computer Science
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2023
Nankai University
B.Eng. in Software Engineering
Tianjin, China
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2019
Experience
MIT CSAIL
Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Wojciech Matusik
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Present
MIT EECS
Teaching Assistant | 6.4420/6.8420 Advanced Computer Graphics
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2022
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Research Intern | Advisor: Prof. Chuang Gan
Cambridge, MA
Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021
ByteDance AI Lab
Research Intern | Advisors: Dr. Xiaojie Jin and Dr. Jianchao Yang
Beijing, China
Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019
The University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Jia Pan
Hong Kong
Feb. 2019 - May 2019
SenseTime Research
Research Intern | Advisors: Prof. Ping Luo and Dr. Wei Zhang
Shenzhen, China
May 2018 - Feb. 2019
Nankai University
Research Assistant | Advisors: Prof. Bo Ren and Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng
Tianjin, China
Apr. 2016 - Jun. 2019