Junyao Shi (施钧耀) is a PhD student in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory, advised by Dinesh Jayaraman.
His research focuses on robot learning, with a particular emphasis on leveraging internet-scale data and foundation models for robotics. Junyao’s ultimate goal is to free humans from dangerous or mundane tasks by entrusting them to machines.

Previously, he received his B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University, where he worked with Peter Allen on brain-signal guided robot learning and Tony Dear on reinforcement learning for snake robot locomotion.