Siyu Ma

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing Lab at UCLA, co-advised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang and Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. Previously, I obtained my M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

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Research

I am interested in building generalizable, agentic robot manipulation systems that learn at scale in simulation and continuously improve through an autonomous real-to-sim-to-real loop.

	Skill2Real: Agentic Skill Learning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Manipulation Xincheng He, Siyu Ma, Chang Yu, Yunuo Chen, Yanjia Huang, Ying Nian Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang. In Submission arXiv \| project page
	TacCoRL: Integrating Tactile Feedback into VLA via Simulation Siyu Ma, Yuqi Liang, Chang Yu^†, Yunuo Chen, Hao Su, Yixin Zhu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang. CoRL 2026* Oral @ RSS 2026 Tactile-FM Workshop arXiv \| project page
	Sparse2Act: Learning Action-Aligned Sparse 3D Representations for Cross-Domain Robot Manipulation Yu Guo, Chang Yu, Siyu Ma, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Ying Nian Wu, Chenfanfu Jiang. NeurIPS 2026 Workshop PTA* arXiv \| project page
	Right-Side-Out: Learning Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Garment Reversal Chang Yu, Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du, Zeshun Zong, Han Xue, Wendi Chen, Cewu Lu, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Joseph Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Chenfanfu Jiang. ICRA 2026** arXiv \| project page \| video
	GRIP: A General Robotic Incremental Potential Contact Simulation Dataset for Unified Deformable-Rigid Coupled Grasping Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du, Chang Yu, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang. IROS 2025 arXiv \| project page \| video
	Embedded IPC: Fast and Intersection-free Simulation in Reduced Subspace for Robot Manipulation Wenxin Du, Chang Yu, Siyu Ma, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Yin Yang, Joe Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang. ICRA 2025 arXiv \| project page

Experience

	LightSpeed Studios, Tencent America Research Intern, advised by Kui Wu Jun 2026 – Aug 2026
	CoRe Lab at Peking University Visiting Student, advised by Yixin Zhu Oct 2025 – Dec 2025
	MVIG Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Visiting Student, advised by Cewu Lu Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Miscellaneous

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with pets.🐶🐱🐹