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Amherst, MA 01003

Junyun Huang

University of Massachusetts Amherst

I’m a first-year M.S. student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, where I work with the Embodied AGI Lab led by Chuang Gan. Previously, I was part of the UMD Gamma Group mentored by Xijun Wang and under the guidance of Dinesh Manocha. I’ve also collaborated with John P. Dickerson in the Dickerson Lab.

My current research interests are primarily centered on humanoid robots.

📚 Publications

  1. Under Review
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    ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Direct Extremity Control
    Ziyan Xiong*, Lixing Fang*, Junyun Huang*, Kashu Yamazaki, Hao Zhang, and Chuang Gan
    *Equal contribution
    PDF Code Website
  2. AAAI ’26
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    Bi-VLM: Pushing Ultra-Low Precision Post-Training Quantization Boundaries in Vision-Language Models
    Xijun Wang*, Junyun Huang*, Rayyan Abdalla*, Chengyuan Zhang, Ruiqi Xian, and Dinesh Manocha
    *Equal contribution
    PDF
  3. IEEE IV ’26
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    DAVE: Diverse Atomic Visual Elements Dataset with High Representation of Vulnerable Road Users in Complex and Unpredictable Environments
    Xijun Wang, Pedro Sandoval-Segura, Chengyuan Zhang, Junyun Huang, Tianrui Guan, Ruiqi Xian, Fuxiao Liu, Rohan Chandra, Boqing Gong, and Dinesh Manocha
    PDF
  4. RLC ’25
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    Syllabus: Portable Curricula for Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Ryan Sullivan, Ryan Pégoud, Ameen Ur Rahmen, Xinchen Yang, Junyun Huang, Aayush Verma, Nistha Mitra, and John P Dickerson
    🏆 Outstanding Paper (Tooling, Envs. & Eval., RLC 2025),
    PDF Code

💼 Experience

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Research Student, Embodied AGI Lab, UMass Amherst
2025/09 — Present
  • Project: Humanoid Robot
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Research Student, GAMMA Lab, University of Maryland
2024/09 — Present
  • Project: VLM Quantization
  • Project: Autonomous Driving Dataset
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Research Student, Dickerson Lab, University of Maryland
2024/02 — 2024/06
  • Project: Syllabus Project
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Research Intern, GDIIST, China
2024/06 — 2024/08; 2023/06 — 2023/08
  • Project: LLM fine-tuning & RAG eval
  • Project: LLM pre-processing
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Student Worker, GAMMA Lab, University of Maryland
2022/06 — 2022/07
  • Project: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Video Recognition

🎓 Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst logo
M.S., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2025/09 — Present
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B.S., Computer Science, University of Maryland
Minor in Mathematics
2021/08 — 2025/05