Kenny Wong — Embodied AI and Robotics
Embodied AI & Robotics
I build learning systems for robots that see, feel, and act.
I am Kenny Wong Lik Hang (王力恒), a master's student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working in Prof. Dou Qi's lab. My research focuses on visuotactile perception and policy learning for contact-rich manipulation.
I received my BSc in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2025.
Research
Selected work
First-author papers only.
A Survey of Robotic Navigation and Manipulation with Physics Simulators in the Era of Embodied AI
A survey of physics simulators for robotic navigation and manipulation in the era of embodied AI.
Equivariant Visual-Tactile Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
VISTA is an equivariant visuotactile diffusion policy for data-efficient and spatially robust contact-rich manipulation.
Embodied AI for Vision Language Navigation (VLN) with Quadruped Robots
Advancing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) with quadruped robots using Recurrent-VLN-Bert-Isaac and the VLN-Go2-Matterport dataset.
Recent
News
- Our survey, A Survey of Robotic Navigation and Manipulation with Physics Simulators in the Era of Embodied AI, has been accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). arXiv
- Our paper, Equivariant Visual-Tactile Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation, has been accepted to Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026). arXiv
- Graduated from City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) with a BSc in Computer Science.
- Admitted to the MSc in Computer Science programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2025 Fall Entry.
Background
Experience
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Undergraduate Researcher, NICS
Developed topological-map navigation methods for legged robot image-goal navigation using Habitat-Sim and Isaac Sim. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and supervised by Dr. Kwai Wong.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Student Helper · Part-time
Supported ongoing research projects in 3D computer vision, multimodal large language models, and robotics. Based on-site in Hong Kong.
The Bank of East Asia
Student Programmer, IT Department
Worked on backend automation and internal software systems using Java, SQL, Linux, sockets, Selenium, and Git within the Technology Innovation and IT Project Management section.
Education
Education & honors
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Master's degree in Computer Science · Sep 2025–
MSc Dean's List
City University of Hong Kong
BSc in Computer Science · 2021–2025
Cum laude · Top 15% of the graduating classOff the clock
Beyond research
When I step away from research, my interests are sports, music, and exploring.