Harsh Gupta

Last updated: October 2025

I'm an undergraduate at the UIUC, pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering. I work with Prof. Wenzhen Yuan at the RoboTouch Lab, focusing on tactile sensing and robotic manipulation.

I recently interned at CMU, collaborating with Prof. Guanya Shi and Prof. Shuran Song on aerial manipulation.

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Research

I’m broadly interested in robot learning, with a focus on cross-embodied learning—understanding how models can transfer data and knowledge across embodiments, including robots and humans, to enable more general and scalable manipulation and perception.

UMI-on-Air: Embodiment-Aware Guidance for Embodiment-Agnostic Visuomotor Policies
Harsh Gupta, Xiaofeng Gao, Huy Ha, Chuer Pan, Muqing Cao, Dongjae Lee, Sebastian Scherer, Shuran Song, Guanya Shi
In submission

arXiv / webpage

Embodiment-aware diffusion policy enables robust cross-embodiment deployment by allowing the robot controller to steer the policy generation process.

Sensor-Invariant Tactile Represenation
Harsh Gupta*, Yuchen Mo*, Shengmiao Jin, Wenzhen Yuan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

arXiv / webpage / code

Tactile foundation model enabling zero-shot transfer across optical tactile sensors by extracting sensor-invariant tactile representations.

Projects

Here are some fun projects I worked on before I knew what research was.

Newton Hand: Real-Time Spatial Modeling and Gesture Estimation
Fall 2023

video / code

A wearable device with IMUs for real-time hand landmark estimation, enabling basic American Sign Language (ASL) translation.

TRACE: Tennis Match Analysis and Visualization Tool
Spring 2023

video / code

A tool that processes tennis match videos to extract player, court, and ball data, generating top-down views and collecting data for analysis.

Miscellaneous

Awards

Omron Electrical Engineering Scholarship, 2025
Indira Gunda Saladi Engineering Research Prize, 2024+2025
Zhang Cheng Family Scholarship, 2025
Timothy N. Trick Leadership Award, 2025
Ackmann Family Scholarship, 2024
Edmund J. James Scholar, 2023

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, ECE120 Spring 2023

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