Natcha Jengjirapas

Hi! I am Natcha Jengjirapas. I am currently a Master's student in Computer Science at ETH Zürich, specializing in Machine Intelligence with a minor in Data Management. Before ETH Zürich, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, with a specialization in Information.

My interests lie at the intersection of reinforcement learning, generative models, and robotics. I am especially interested in embodied intelligence, humanoid control, imitation learning, and motion generation under real-world physical constraints.

I am currently building my research portfolio and hope to contribute to work that leads to publications in robotics and machine learning.

News

Mar 2026: Won 1st Place at ETH Robotics Club HACK 2026 for a humanoid manipulation project.

Dec 2025: Completed a semester project on reproducibility in RL-based ramp metering at ETH Zürich.

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning, Generative Models, Robotics, Imitation Learning, Humanoid Control, Motion Generation, Embodied AI.

Projects

Imitation Learning for Humanoid Robot G1 Manipulation

ETH Robotics Club HACK, 2026 🏆 Won 1st Place

Built a humanoid manipulation pipeline using teleoperation, LeRobot, and ACT under a 48-hour hackathon constraint, while adapting NVIDIA GR00T Whole-Body Control for locomotion.

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High-Frequency Trajectory Tracking for Franka Emika Panda

Personal Project, 2026

Developed an RL pipeline in MuJoCo using PPO for figure-8 trajectory tracking with a 7-DoF Franka arm.

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Reproducibility Study of RL-Based Ramp Metering

Semester Project at ETH Zürich, 2025

Implemented ACTM and METANET simulators from scratch and evaluated Q-learning, MPC, and actor-critic methods for traffic control reproducibility.

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