CV

Curriculum vitae and selected research experience.

Contact Information

Name Ruihan Wu
Email ruihanwu@sas.upenn.edu

Experience

  • 2026 - 2026

    Baltimore, MD, US

    Summer Research Intern
    Johns Hopkins University
    Research internship at the Learning, Control, and Safety Robotics (LCSR) Lab, working on robotics and learning for control.

Education

  • 2023 - 2027

    Shenzhen, China

    Bachelor of Engineering
    Southern University of Science and Technology
    Information Engineering
    • GPA 3.93/4.0, rank 1/48.
  • 2026 - 2026

    Philadelphia, PA, US

    Visiting Undergraduate Student
    University of Pennsylvania
    International Guest Student Program
    • GPA 4.0/4.0.

Projects

  • 2025 - 2026
    Physical Residual Distillation for AUV Reinforcement Learning Control

    Hybrid Stonefish-MuJoCo simulator and residual hydrodynamics distillation for AUV control.

    • Coupled rigid-body physics with a learned residual hydrodynamics model.
    • Published Deep Hydro-Sim at ICMA 2026 and presented it orally in Jilin.
  • 2025 - 2026
    Design of Underwater Navigation and Control System for Coaxial Twin-Propeller ROV

    ROS2 and visual SLAM based underwater navigation and control system.

    • Integrated stereo vision and auxiliary sensors for high-precision localization.
    • Deployed ORB_SLAM3 for underwater environment mapping.

Awards

  • 2025
    SUSTech Outstanding Student Scholarship
    Southern University of Science and Technology

    Second Prize, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

  • 2025
    Outstanding Student
    Southern University of Science and Technology

    Recognized in 2024 and 2025.

  • 2025
    Silver Prize, Shokz Cup Global Outstanding Innovative Talent Summer School
    Shokz Cup Global Outstanding Innovative Talent Summer School

    Built a vision-based surface-water cleaning unmanned boat.

  • 2025
    National Second Prize, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest
    National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest

    Designed a laser-guided automatic target-following vehicle.

  • 2025
    Provincial First Prize and National Second Prize, National Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Contest
    National Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Contest

    Developed a smoke-diffusion model and PSO-based tactical planner.

  • 2025
    Silver Prize, Foreign Language Press "China Talent Cup" English Comprehensive Proficiency Competition
    Foreign Language Press

    English comprehensive proficiency competition.

Publications

Skills

Language: English (Fluent, TOEFL 109), Chinese (Native)
Technical: C, Python, bash, ROS, Reinforcement Learning, Convex Optimization, Deep Learning