Scholar
Kaiyu Hang
Google Scholar ID: GrgH1lQAAAAJ
Rice University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,388
H-index
20
i10-index
30
Publications
20
Co-authors
40
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023, for developing compliance- and motion-based manipulation funnel robots
- 5 papers accepted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025
- Organizing the 2nd Workshop on Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation at IROS 2025
- Lead organizer of the In-Hand Manipulation Competition (Sub-Track 2) at the 10th RGMC, ICRA 2025
- Multiple best paper award finalists at IEEE-RAS Humanoids, ICRA, and IROS
- Ranked 13th globally in Amazon Picking Challenge 2015
- Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE-RAS ICRA 2014
- Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award Finalist, IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012
- Junior Fellowship Award, Institute for Advanced Study, HKUST, 2017–2018
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University
- Directs the Robotics and Physical Interactions Lab (RobotΠ Lab)
- Broadly interested in robotic systems that physically interact with other robots, people, and the world
- Research focuses on algorithms in optimization, planning, learning, estimation, and control for efficient, robust, and generalizable manipulation systems
- Addresses problems ranging from small-scale grasping and in-hand manipulation to large-scale dual-arm, mobile, and multi-robot manipulation
