Ying Yuan

Email: yingyua2@andrew.cmu.edu
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I am a first-year PhD student at CMU Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. David Held. I am broadly interested in robot learning, especially RL, imitation learning and their application in robotics. My goal is to develop algorithms for real-world challenges, such as robust and generalizable robot manipulation.
Previously, I obtained Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Yao Class at Tsinghua University. I spent my junior year as a research intern at UC San Diego advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang. I also worked with Prof. Yi Wu at IIIS, Tsinghua University.

News

  • Sep 2024: Our paper on learning to spin "pens" got accepted by CoRL 2024!
  • Jun 2024: One paper got accepted by IROS 2024!
  • Jun 2024: I graduated from Tsinghua University as an honored graduate.
  • May 2024: I presented Robot Synesthesia at ICRA 2024.
  • Jan 2024: One paper got accepted by ICRA 2024! See you in Japan!
  • Sep 2023: I received Yao Award (Recognition Prize) from IIIS, Tsinghua University.
  • Papers (*indicates equal technical contribution)

    Lessons from Learning to Spin “Pens”
    Jun Wang*, Ying Yuan*, Haichuan Che*, Haozhi Qi*, Yi Ma, Jitendra Malik, Xiaolong Wang
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
    [Paper] [Code] [Website] [Summary]
    Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing
    Ying Yuan*, Haichuan Che*, Yuzhe Qin*, Binghao Huang, Zhao-Heng Yin, Kang-Won Lee, Yi Wu, Soo-Chul Lim, Xiaolong Wang
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
    NeurIPS Workshop on Touch Processing, 2023
    [Paper] [Code] [Website] [Summary]
    Self-Generating Data for Goal-Conditioned Compositional Problems
    Ying Yuan, Yunfei Li, Yi Wu
    ICLR Reincarnating RL Workshop, 2023
    [Paper]

    Honors and Awards

  • Yao Award (Recognition Prize), 2023
  • School scholarship on academic performance and social work, 2022
  • Tang Junyuan Scholarship and School-level Scholarship, 2021
  • Education

    PhD in Robotics
    School of Computer Science

    Carnegie Mellon University
    2024 - present
    Bachelor of Engineering
    Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

    Tsinghua University
    2020 - 2024
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