Presenter

Peter Yichen Chen is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the UBC PhysAI Lab. His work focuses on physics simulation for robotics, with an emphasis on Real2Sim and Sim2Real. He was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL and received his PhD in computer science from Columbia University, working at the intersection of machine learning and physics simulation. He received the Sherwood Prize in mathematics as an undergraduate at UCLA. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including a SIGGRAPH 2025 Best Paper Award, and he has collaborated closely with industry partners including NVIDIA, Meta, and Amazon Robotics.