Kaidi Zhang

I'm a first-year PhD student in MARS lab at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Yu She. I received my Master's degree at Columbia University, working as a graduate research assiatant in ROAM Lab supervised by Prof. Matei Ciocarlie.

My research focuses on robotics, particularly in areas of robot perception, tactile sensing, and contact-rich manipulation.

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email: kz2498(at)columbia(dot)edu

Recent Updates

[8-2025] Joining MARS lab at Purdue!
[6-2025] 1 Paper accepted by IROS 2025

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Research Project

	VibeCheck: Using Active Acoustic Tactile Sensing for Contact-Rich Manipulation Kaidi Zhang, Do-Gon Kim, Eric T. Chang, Hua-Hsuan Liang, Zhanpeng He, Kathryn Lampo, Philippe Wu, Ioannis Kymissis, Matei Ciocarlie IROS, 2025 Accepted!* Project Website / arXiv / Video
	MoD-SLAM: Monocular Dense Mapping for Unbounded 3D Scene Reconstruction Heng Zhou, Zhetao Guo , Yuxiang Ren, Shuhong Liu, Lechen Zhang , Kaidi Zhang , Mingrui Li IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025 project page
	MI-SLAM: Monocular Radiance Field-Informed 3D Gaussian SLAM with IMU Motion Dynamics Mingrui Li, Heng Zhou, Shuhong Liu, Zibing Zhao, Kaidi Zhang, Hongyu Wang AAAI, 2025 under review project page
	Design and Implementation of a Self-Balancing Robot based on Inertia Wheel Pendulum Theory Final Year Project \| Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \| Supervised by Prof. Yuqing Chen Designed a two-wheeled self-balancing robot based on inertia wheel pendulum theory.
	Evolving a Soft Robot in terms of Locomotion Pattern and Morphology Course Project \| Columbia University \| Evolutionary Computation and Design Automation Applied evolutionary computation and genetic algorithm to evolve the locomotion pattern and morphology simultaneously.
	Implementation of Depth Supervised Sparse Neural Radiance Grid Course Project \| Columbia University \| Neural Networks and Deep Learning Proposed a Depth Supervised Sparse Neural Radian Grid (D-sNeRG) method according to sNeRG and Depth NeRF.

Other Experience

Kunming Shipbuilding Equipment Corporation

Robotics Engineering Intern
Kunming Shipbuilding Equipment Co., Ltd.
June 2021 - July 2021

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