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Fangchen Liu is a robotics and machine learning researcher whose work sits at the intersection of embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation environments. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to SAPIEN, a simulated part-based interactive environment designed to accelerate progress in home assistant robotics — a paper that has garnered over 370 citations and become a widely adopted benchmark in the field. His research spans several interconnected themes: building realistic simulation platforms, developing generalizable imitation learning methods, and leveraging large-scale foundation models for robotic control. Liu's work on one-shot visual imitation learning tackles the challenge of enabling robots to rapidly acquire new skills from minimal demonstrations, while his contributions to the Open X-Embodiment collaboration reflect a commitment to large-scale, cross-platform robotic learning datasets and models. More recently, he has explored open-world robotic manipulation through vision-language model integration (MOKA) and in-context imitation learning via transformer architectures (ICRT). His functional manipulation benchmark (FMB) further demonstrates a drive to create rigorous, real-world evaluation standards for generalizable robot learning. Across his growing body of work, Liu has established himself as a significant contributor to making robots more capable, adaptable, and practically deployable.