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Robot learning and AI researcher focused on reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation and interpretability for RL agents. TODO: add a downloadable CV PDF under assets/pdf/ and set cv_pdf above.

Basics

Name Wenhao Lu
Label PhD Researcher in Robot Learning and Explainable RL
Email wenhao.lu@uni-hamburg.de
Url https://LukasWill.github.io
Summary Robot learning and AI researcher focused on reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation and interpretability for RL agents. My work studies how learned policies can be trained, evaluated, and explained in embodied decision-making tasks.

Education

  • Hamburg, Germany

    PhD Researcher
    University of Hamburg
    Robot learning, reinforcement learning, and explainable AI

Skills

Reinforcement Learning
PPO
reward shaping
reward decomposition
trajectory-level evaluation
Robot Learning
robotic manipulation
simulation-based learning
obstacle-aware behavior
embodied control
Interpretability
causal state distillation
high-level robotic explanations
mental modeling of RL agents
action coherence analysis
Research Engineering
PyTorch
robotics simulation
experiment analysis

Interests

Research Interests
reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation
robot learning and robotic manipulation
explainable reinforcement learning
interpretability for RL agents

Projects

  • - Present
    RL-Driven Robotic Manipulation
    Reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation, including reward design, obstacle-aware behavior, and simulation-based evaluation.
    • robot learning
    • reinforcement learning
    • manipulation
  • - Present
    Causal and Language-Based RL Interpretability
    Analyses of RL agents using causal state distillation and language-model mental modeling to inspect learned behavior from trajectories.
    • RL interpretability
    • causal analysis
    • mental modeling