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Pingchuan Ma
Ph.D. Candidate, 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 fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Previously, he worked with Prof. Bo Ren and Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng at Nankai University. His research goal covers the whole pipeline of embodied intelligence: (1) reconstructing efficient realistic physics-based environments, (2) generating intelligent agents upon the environments, and (3) realizing the agents in the physical world.
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]
[DiffuseBot]
DiffuseBot: Breeding Soft Robots with Physics-Augmented Generative Diffusion Models
Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Juntian Zheng, Pingchuan Ma, Yilun Du, Byungchul Kim, Andrew Spielberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan, and Daniela Rus
[NeurIPS 2023] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code]
Oral Presentation
[NCLaw]
Learning Neural Constitutive Laws from Motion Observations for Generalizable PDE Dynamics
Pingchuan Ma, Peter Yichen Chen, Bolei Deng, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tao Du, Chuang Gan, and Wojciech Matusik
[ICML 2023] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code]
[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
[ICLR 2023] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code]
[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
[ICLR 2022] [Homepage] [Paper] [Demo] [MIT News]
Oral Presentation
[DiffPD]
DiffPD: Differentiable Projective Dynamics
Tao Du, Kui Wu, Pingchuan Ma, Sebastien Wah, Andrew Spielberg, and Wojciech Matusik
[SIGGRAPH 2022] [Homepage] [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
[SIGGRAPH 2021] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [Video]
[CPMTL]
Efficient Continuous Pareto Exploration in Multi-Task Learning
Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, and Wojciech Matusik
[ICML 2020] [Homepage] [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
[ICML 2020] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [Video]
[RLFluid]
Fluid Directed Rigid Body Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pingchuan Ma*, Yunsheng Tian*, Zherong Pan, Bo Ren, and Dinesh Manocha
[SIGGRAPH 2018] [Homepage] [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] [Paper]
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Candidate 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 | 6.807/6.839 Advanced Computer Graphics
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2022
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Research Summer Intern | Advisor: Prof. Chuang Gan
Cambridge, MA
Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021
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