Zechu (Steven) Li

Zechu (Steven) Li

I am a PhD student at PEARL Lab, advised by Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki since October 2024, and currently a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind in London. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL with Prof. Pulkit Agrawal and interned at DexMate and IDEA Research.

My research focuses on robot learning and reinforcement learning, with particular interests in scalable simulation, dexterous and humanoid manipulation, and agentic systems for automating robot learning.

I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia University in May 2022. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Xiaodong Wang, Prof. Anwar Walid, and Prof. Sharon (Xuan) Di.

Publications

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2026
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2021
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Open Source Projects

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ElegantRL “小雅”
GitHub4.4k

ElegantRL “小雅”: Massively Parallel Library for Cloud-native Deep Reinforcement Learning

Runs massively parallel DRL training on cloud-native infrastructure.

As a leader of this project, I have been contributing to

  • develop a series of large-scale training frameworks,
  • implemente SOTA algorithms and techniques,
  • build the documentation website.

Starting from Mar. 2021, I started to write tutorial blogs for the community,

Book Chapter

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