Sida He

I am an AI researcher at Huawei, where I have worked since 2022. My current research interests are embodied AI and AI for Science (AI4S). I have more than ten years of research experience in physics and mechanics, with a particular focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

I earned my PhD from the University of Minnesota (2015–2022), where my research focused on computational fluid dynamics under the supervision of Prof. Lian Shen, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).

I received my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University (2010–2014), where I was part of the Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP).

Contact: hesida1@huawei.com

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selected publications

Preprint

Robot Manipulation with GPT-6-Astra: Body Knowledge, Experience Reuse, Emergent Skills, and Sim2Real Transfer

Sida He, Lingxi Xie, Yunning Cao, Pengfei Chen, Kaiwen Duan, Jiannan Ge, Xinyue Huo, Jiacheng Shao, and Qi Tian

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.31770; Embodied AI , 2026

arXiv Bib Code

@article{he2026robot,
  title = {Robot Manipulation with {GPT-6-Astra}: Body Knowledge, Experience Reuse, Emergent Skills, and {Sim2Real} Transfer},
  author = {He, Sida and Xie, Lingxi and Cao, Yunning and Chen, Pengfei and Duan, Kaiwen and Ge, Jiannan and Huo, Xinyue and Shao, Jiacheng and Tian, Qi},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.31770},
  year = {2026},
}

Preprint

AI Decodes Historical Chinese Archives to Reveal Lost Climate History

Sida He, Lingxi Xie, Xiaopeng Zhang, and Qi Tian

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22458; AI for Science (AI4S) , 2026

arXiv Bib

@article{he2026ai,
  title = {{AI} Decodes Historical Chinese Archives to Reveal Lost Climate History},
  author = {He, Sida and Xie, Lingxi and Zhang, Xiaopeng and Tian, Qi},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22458},
  year = {2026},
}

Journal

Simulation-based study of COVID-19 outbreak associated with air-conditioning in a restaurant

Han Liu^*, Sida He^*, Lian Shen, and Jiarong Hong

Physics of Fluids; CFD applications , 2021

DOI Bib

@article{liu2021simulation,
  title = {Simulation-based study of {COVID-19} outbreak associated with air-conditioning in a restaurant},
  author = {Liu, Han and He, Sida and Shen, Lian and Hong, Jiarong},
  journal = {Physics of Fluids},
  volume = {33},
  number = {2},
  pages = {023301},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {AIP Publishing LLC},
  doi = {10.1063/5.0040188},
}

Journal

Simulation-based study of turbulent aquatic canopy flows with flexible stems

Sida He, Han Liu, and Lian Shen

Journal of Fluid Mechanics; CFD flow physics , 2022

DOI Bib

@article{he2022simulation,
  title = {Simulation-based study of turbulent aquatic canopy flows with flexible stems},
  author = {He, Sida and Liu, Han and Shen, Lian},
  journal = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume = {947},
  pages = {A33},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  doi = {10.1017/jfm.2022.655},
}

Journal

Numerical simulation of interaction between multiphase flows and thin flexible structures

Sida He, Zixuan Yang, Fotis Sotiropoulos, and Lian Shen

Journal of Computational Physics; CFD algorithms , 2022

DOI Bib

@article{he2022numerical,
  title = {Numerical simulation of interaction between multiphase flows and thin flexible structures},
  author = {He, Sida and Yang, Zixuan and Sotiropoulos, Fotis and Shen, Lian},
  journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
  pages = {110691},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Academic Press},
  volume = {448},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110691},
}