Henry Che

I am a thesis-based Masters student at UIUC working on robotics. I am advised by Prof. Shenlong Wang and supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Before that, I graduated from UIUC with a B.S. in ECE. I also spent half a year as a research intern at Waabi, working on self-driving with Jingkang Wang and Prof. Raquel Urtasun.

I am interested in robotics and autonomous driving. My dream is to build robots that can safely navigate and interact with our world and make our daily lives easier.

Publications

Flux4D: Flow-based Unsupervised 4D Reconstruction

Jingkang Wang*, Henry Che*, Yun Chen*, Ze Yang, Lily Goli, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun

NeurIPS 2025 | Website | Paper

TLDR: An unsupervised generalizable 4D reconstruction and forecasting framework for driving scenes

Human-like Navigation in a World Built for Humans

Bhargav Chandaka*, Gloria Wang*, Haozhe Chen, Henry Che, Albert Zhai, Shenlong Wang

CoRL 2025 | Website | Paper | Code

TLDR: VLM-based in-door robot navigation using human-world cues for spatial reasoning

LidarDM: Generative LiDAR Simulation in a Generated World

Vlas Zyrianov*, Henry Che*, Zhijian Liu, Shenlong Wang

ICRA 2025 | Website | Paper | Code

TLDR: 4D LiDAR generation and simulation with layout-conditioned scene diffusion

Misc.

My real first name is Dai Hung (Ursa Major in Vietnamese)
I co-founded SIGRobotics at UIUC, a robotics student org focused on hands-on project.