Hello, I'm Jiawei (Joel) Wang.
Robotics researcher: GPU planning, robust trajectory optimisation and articulated 3D
Generating physical things is now cheap; knowing whether they work is not. I build fast, robust verifiers (GPU planners and robust trajectory optimisers) and use them to decide which generated robots, objects and interactions deserve real-world evidence.
I have worked with Prof. Evangelos Theodorou (Georgia Tech) on GPU robust trajectory optimisation, and with Prof. Henrik Christensen at UC San Diego (2023–2025) on GPU motion planning. I am a partner at Deemos (Hyper3D), where I lead the Hyper3D Physical AI Lab.
Projects
cuNRTO
GPU robust trajectory optimisation
Kinematify
Articulated objects from one image
ManiTwin
Simulation-ready digital objects
Fetch Isaac Sim
Fetch robot for Isaac Sim
News
ManiTwin was accepted as a poster at the IROS 2026 workshop on scalable infrastructure for robot learning.
Sep 2026
cuNRTO was one of eight Outstanding Paper Award finalists at RSS 2026.
Jul 2026
Kinematify appeared at ICRA 2026 in Vienna.
Jun 2026
Publications * equal contribution
cuNRTO: GPU-Accelerated Nonlinear Robust Trajectory Optimization
Jiawei Wang*, Arshiya Taj Abdul*, Evangelos A. Theodorou
RSS 2026 · Outstanding Paper Award Finalist
Kinematify: Open-Vocabulary Synthesis of High-DoF Articulated Objects
Jiawei Wang, Dingyou Wang, Jiaming Hu, Qixuan Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Lan Xu
ICRA 2026
ManiTwin: Scaling Data-Generation-Ready Digital Object Dataset to 100K
Kaixuan Wang*, Tianxing Chen*, Jiawei Liu*, Honghao Su*, Shaolong Zhu*, Mingxuan Wang, Zixuan Li, Yue Chen, Huan-ang Gao, Yusen Qin, Jiawei Wang, Qixuan Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu, Yao Mu, Ping Luo
IROS 2026 Workshop (poster) · arXiv 2603.16866
cpRRTC: GPU-Parallel RRT-Connect for Constrained Motion Planning
Jiaming Hu*, Jiawei Wang*, Henrik I. Christensen
RSS 2025 Workshop on Fast Motion Planning and Control in the Era of Parallelism
Mobile Manipulation Planning for Tabletop Rearrangement
Jiaming Hu, Jiawei Wang, Henrik I. Christensen
arXiv 2025
Motion Planning in Foliated Manifolds using Repetition Roadmap
Jiaming Hu, Shrutheesh Raman Iyer, Jiawei Wang, Henrik I. Christensen
RSS 2024
Rodin: 3D Asset Creation with a Text/Image/3D-Conditioned Large Generative Model for Creative Frontier
Qixuan Zhang, Longwen Zhang, Jiawei Wang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu
SIGGRAPH 2024 Real-Time Live!
A Reinforcement Learning-based Network Load Balancing Mechanism
Jiawei Wang
CISAI 2022 (Proc. SPIE)