CV
Curriculum vitae and selected research experience.
Contact Information
| Name | Ruihan Wu |
| ruihanwu@sas.upenn.edu |
Experience
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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
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2023 - 2027 Shenzhen, China
Bachelor of Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
Information Engineering
- GPA 3.93/4.0, rank 1/48.
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2026 - 2026 Philadelphia, PA, US
Visiting Undergraduate Student
University of Pennsylvania
International Guest Student Program
- GPA 4.0/4.0.
Projects
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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.
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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
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2025 SUSTech Outstanding Student Scholarship
Southern University of Science and Technology
Second Prize, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.
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2025 Outstanding Student
Southern University of Science and Technology
Recognized in 2024 and 2025.
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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.
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2025 National Second Prize, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest
National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest
Designed a laser-guided automatic target-following vehicle.
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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.
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2025 Silver Prize, Foreign Language Press "China Talent Cup" English Comprehensive Proficiency Competition
Foreign Language Press
English comprehensive proficiency competition.
Publications
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2026 Deep Hydro-Sim: Structured Residual Hydrodynamics for the RL-Based AUV Control
2026 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)
A hybrid Stonefish-MuJoCo framework distills residual hydrodynamics from a high-fidelity simulator into a fast rigid-body engine for stable RL-based AUV control.
Skills
Language: English (Fluent, TOEFL 109), Chinese (Native)
Technical: C, Python, bash, ROS, Reinforcement Learning, Convex Optimization, Deep Learning