Yidong (Easton) Jiang is a senior undergraduate student at the School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and is now a visiting student under the supervision of Prof. Xiaobin Xiong at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He also works with Prof. Yanyong Zhang from the School of Data Science, USTC.
Previously, he gained research experience under Prof. Rong Zheng at McMaster University and Prof. Kani Chen at HKUST.

His research interests lie in robotics and control, including whole-body teleoperation, reinforcement learning, and model-based methods.

🎓 Education

	University of Wisconsin–Madison — Department of Mechanical Engineering Visiting International Student Aug 2025 – Jun 2026
	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) — School of Data Science (DS) B.Eng. in Data Science Sep 2022 – Jun 2026 (expected)
	Beijing National Day School (北京十一学校) Sep 2019 – Jun 2022

🎥 Some demo of my recent projects

🔁 Transfer RL Framework (Isaac Gym → Isaac Lab, Homie)

🤖 Whole-body Teleoperation (G1 Whole-body) [code]

🧠 Upper-body Teleoperation (G1 Half-body) [code]

🦾 Robot Arm Teleoperation [code]

🌀 Model-based UAV Tracking

News

• 📄 2026.03: Paper “Needle in a Haystack: Tracking UAVs from Massive Noise in Real-World 5G-A Base Station Data” accepted at ACM MobiSys 2026.

• 🧠 2025.08 – Present: Visiting student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on robotics and control under Prof. Xiaobin Xiong.

• 🎓 2022.09 – Present: Undergraduate student at the School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).