Jacob Gong
CS Researcher at Columbia University
I am a Computer Science student at Columbia University, working as a Research Assistant at the Creative Machine Lab. My research interests span robotics, computer vision, and GPU simulation, with a focus on soft robot co-design, world models, and 3D reconstruction.
News
- Aug 2025 Started as Research Assistant at Creative Machine Lab, Columbia University
- Aug 2025 Joined Columbia University as a BA student in Computer Science
- Jan 2025 Joined Distributed and Mobile Sensing Computing Group at CityU HK
- Aug 2023 Started BS in Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
Projects
Task-Agnostic Robot Self-Modeling
A pipeline to reconstruct robot URDFs from 2D video using vision foundation models and 3D reconstruction.
Voxel-Based Soft Robot Co-Design
Two GPU-accelerated frameworks for joint morphology-control co-optimization of voxel-based soft robots.
DriftWorld — World Model Framework for Robot Manipulation
A unified framework comparing four generative architectures (VAE, DDPM, Flow Matching, Drifting Models) for learning robot world models. Flow Matching at 5 Euler steps achieves the best rollout stability.
Publications
Coming soon.
Recent Posts
Welcome to My Blog
Welcome! This is my personal blog where I plan to share thoughts on my research in robotics, generative models, computer vision, and GPU simulation, as well as interesting things I...
Awards & Coursework
Awards
- Dean's List — All Semesters — City University of Hong Kong
- iGPA 3.90/4.0 (Top 7%) — City University of Hong Kong
Selected Coursework
- Advanced Programming
- Project in MECH ENG
- Computational Probability Modeling
- Advanced Algorithms
- Software Design
- Machine Learning