Ruipeng Zhang

Ruipeng Zhang

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC San Diego.
Advised by Prof. Sicun Gao.

Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, and Deep Learning.

Selected Publications

Quadruped Walking Demo
ICRA 2026 Learning Quadruped Walking from Seconds of Demonstration
Ruipeng Zhang, Hongzhan Yu, Ya-Chien Chang, Chenghao Li, Henrik I. Christensen, Sicun Gao
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ICML 2025 When Maximum Entropy Misleads Policy Optimization
Ruipeng Zhang, Ya-Chien Chang, Sicun Gao
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ICML 2025 Improving Value Estimation Critically Enhances Vanilla Policy Gradient
Tao Wang, Ruipeng Zhang, Sicun Gao
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CoRL 2025 Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Katherine Mao, Hongzhan Yu, Ruipeng Zhang, Igor Spasojevic, M Ani Hsieh, Sicun Gao, Vijay Kumar
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NeurIPS 2022 Learning-based motion planning in dynamic environments using GNNs and temporal encoding
Ruipeng Zhang, Chenning Yu, Jingkai Chen, Chuchu Fan, Sicun Gao

Professional Service

Reviewer: NeurIPS