Robot Learning Embodied AI Dexterous Manipulation

Jianhan (Jaime) Ma 马健涵

I am currently a Research Engineer at Noematrix, where I work on building robotics foundation models for generalizable embodied intelligence.

My research interests center on robot learning for generalizable locomotion and manipulation, with a particular focus on how vision, language, and action representations can be combined to scale the capabilities of embodied agents.

Previously, I was a researcher at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, working with Prof. Huazhe Xu at Tsinghua University. I received my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego, where I was advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang, and my B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Liangjing Yang and Prof. Zuozhu Liu.

  • World Action Models
  • Vision-Language-Action
  • Dexterous Manipulation
  • Locomotion

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Publications & Preprints

* Core Contributors † Project Lead

UniDex robot hand control project preview
CVPR 2026

UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos

Gu Zhang*, Qicheng Xu*, Haozhe Zhang*, Jianhan Ma*, Long He*, Yiming Bao*, Zeyu Ping, Zhecheng Yuan, Chenhao Lu, Chengbo Yuan, Tianhai Liang, Xiaoyu Tian, Maanping Shao, Feihong Zhang, Mingyu Ding, Yang Gao, Hao Zhao, Hang Zhao, Huazhe Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

UniDex is a robot foundation suite to construct large-scale robot data from egocentric human videos, and a vision-language-action policy for universal dexterous hand control.

Earlier Projects

Camera-based augmented reality endoscope auxiliary system preview

Camera-based Augmented Reality Endoscope Auxiliary System

Advisor: Prof. Liangjing Yang

We engineered a sophisticated Augmented Reality (AR) auxiliary system designed to accurately track and tag tumor locations in real-time. This system was adeptly integrated with the vision system of an endoscope mounted on an OpenManipulator-X robot arm. It effectively displayed the pinpointed tumor locations directly onto the endoscope's visual feed, enhancing precision and guidance during medical procedures.

Cone-beam CT tooth segmentation preview

Self-supervised Learning for Semantic Tooth Segmentation on Cone-Beam CT Image

Advisor: Prof. Zuozhu Liu

We proposed an innovative self-supervised representation learning strategy to enhance the accuracy of semantic segmentation in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) datasets.

Education

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UC San Diego

San Diego, CA

2022.9 - 2024.3

M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Zhejiang University

Hangzhou, China

2017.8 - 2021.6

B.E. in Electrical Engineering and its Automation

Teaching

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Teaching Assistant

Spring 2021

ECE 342 & 343 - Electronic Circuits

Instructor: Prof. Aili Wang

Fall 2020

ECE 313 - Probability with Engineering Application

Instructor: Prof. Mark Butala