Scholar
Yichu Yang
Google Scholar ID: A_oWM24AAAAJ
Bytedance Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
147
H-index
2
i10-index
2
Publications
5
Co-authors
3
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Co-authored GR-3 Technical Report—a large-scale VLA model capable of generalizing to long-horizon and dexterous tasks
- 2024: Co-authored GR-2—a generative video-language-action model achieving 97.7% average success rate across 100+ tasks
- 2024: Paper 'State Estimation Transformers for Agile Legged Locomotion' accepted by IROS 2024
- 2023: Received Best Paper Runner-Up at Deployable@CoRL 2023 for the same work
- Successfully deployed agile locomotion policy on Cyberdog2, enabling running jumps, backflips, and sideflips
- Holds a patent on 'Hall-effect-based foot contact sensor for quadruped robots'
Research Experience
- 2024.01–Present: Researcher, Seed Robotics, Bytedance
- 2022.07–2024.01: Researcher, Xiaomi Robotics Lab, Xiaomi
- 2021.06–2022.03: Research Assistant, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
- 2019.05–2019.12: Mechatronics Engineer, Qlibrium (formerly CamMed)
- Led R&D of the first product-level robust fall-recovery system for quadruped robots on diverse terrains (Cyberdog2)
- Conducted research on learning agile locomotion and acrobatic motions
- Completed thesis on biomechanical simulation-guided soft exoskeleton design
