Hi, I am Hongyang Du — a Sc.M. student in Computer Science at Brown University advised by Randall Balestriero. Currently I am collaborating with Yue Wang at the USC Physical SuperIntelligence Lab. I previously obtained my B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. My research explores how Self-Supervised Learning can build World Models for Robotic Control. I focus on extracting spatiotemporal and 3D-aware priors to capture physical dynamics and how to create a scalable loop that couples causal prediction and action prediction.

Outside of research, I am an amateur powerlifter 💪 and a pro drummer 🥁; I am a Jazz cat and prog metalhead — think Chick Corea meets Animals as Leaders. Also, I live with a cat named Dingzhen(丁真)🐱, who keeps me grounded.