About Me

I am an M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, working with the Mobility Transformation Lab under the supervision of Prof. Henry Liu. I am also collaborating with Prof. Zhiwen Fan at the PHAI Lab, Texas A&M University, where I lead a project on robust feedforward 4D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction from in-the-wild driving-scene videos.

Previously, I received a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, in a joint program with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

Research Interests

Embodied policies are limited by scarce real-world data, especially for rare and difficult situations. My research builds faithful simulators and uses their synthetic experience to learn better policies.

  • World Models for Embodied Simulation: Do generated scenes, behaviors, and events match our intent and the real-world distribution? I study how to make world models more faithful and controllable as simulators, and how to evaluate them (WorldCorner).
  • 3D/4D Reconstruction: Thanks to its explicit geometric constraints, Gaussian Splatting is a strong way to represent scenes. I study how to turn unannotated in-the-wild data into editable, simulation-ready digital twins (DC-Forward, crash reconstruction).
  • Learning Robust Policies from Synthetic Experience: I aim to close the loop by generating targeted rare, difficult, and counterfactual scenarios to train safer, more robust policies, with evaluation failures guiding what to generate next.

News

  • Aug 2026 — Started collaborating with Prof. Zhiwen Fan at the PHAI Lab, Texas A&M University.
  • Mar 2026 — Joined the Mobility Transformation Lab at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Henry Liu.
  • Sep 2025 — Started my M.S. in ECE at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • Jun 2024 — Graduated from the University of Glasgow with a B.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, with First Class Honours.

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — Sep 2025 – May 2027 (expected)
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). GPA 3.89 / 4.0. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Joint Undergraduate Program — Sep 2020 – Jun 2024

  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China — B.Eng. in Communication Engineering. GPA 3.63 / 4.0. Chengdu, China.
  • University of Glasgow — B.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, with Honours of the First Class. Glasgow, Scotland.

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 — Excellent Student Scholarship (top 15%, ¥4,500).
  • 2021 — Model Student Scholarship (top 25%, ¥3,000).

Technical Skills

  • Programming — Python, MATLAB, agentic coding tools (Codex, Claude Code); fundamental knowledge of C/C++.
  • Tools & frameworks — PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, Slurm, Linux, Git, LaTeX.

Feel free to reach out at bodongbi@umich.edu.