CV

Cornell People and Robots Teaching and Learning Lab

Research Associate

Imitation learning from videos under Prof. Sanjiban Choudhury

• Discovered a novel approach for learning difficult robotic control tasks from a video
• Achieved >4x improvement above existing baselines on 16 manipulation and humanoid control tasks in simulation
• Presented at a CoRL 2024 workshop and submitted a first-author publication to a top ML conference (in review)

Amazon Web Services

Software Engineering Intern

Cloud infrastructure for packaging and builder tools

• Deployed an AWS microservice to optimize software package storage, projected to save **$50M+** per year
• Developed the application in Java and Typescript using ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, SQS, S3 event notifications, Cloudwatch metrics and alarms, and internal CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborated with developers across multiple teams to identify key design choices
• Wrote extensive unit, integration, and load tests that reflect actual customer request patterns

ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab

Research Intern

Mobile robot traversability mapping under Prof. Marco Hutter and Prof. Donald Greenberg

• Built a ROS package for mobile robot traversability mapping, resulting in a successful deployment on an ANYmal quadruped
• Proposed a novel method to predict environment traversability given language constraints using VLMs
• Distilled large VLMs into smaller visual networks capable of real-time traversability segmentation
• Presented work at the Rawlings Cornell Research Scholarship Grand Slam, winning first prize of $500

NASA

Software Engineering Intern

Combinatorial methods for flight control software verification

• Developed a Python application to generate minimal test suites achieving high combinatorial coverage in state-based control systems
• Identified unit tests improving combinatorial coverage of Starship HLS flight control software
• Collaborated closely with NASA engineers and NIST researchers to evaluate integration testing procedures

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Cornell University College of Engineering

GPA: 4.1/4.3

Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship

Cornell University

$8k in open-ended research funding

First Prize at Rawlings Cornell Research Scholarship Grand Slam

Cornell University

$500 prize for research presentation

Dean's List

Cornell University

All semesters

Connecticut Debate State Champion

Connecticut Debate Association

Imitation Learning from a Single Temporally Misaligned Video

In review at top ML conference

William Huey*, Huaxiaoyue Wang*, Anne Wu, Yoav Artzi, Sanjiban Choudhury

Time your rewards: Learning Temporally Consistent Rewards from a Single Video Demonstration

CoRL 2024 Workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation

Huaxiaoyue Wang*, William Huey*, Anne Wu, Yoav Artzi, Sanjiban Choudhury