Scholar
Heng Yang
Google Scholar ID: GuKEDfixZqsC
Assistant Professor at Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,281
H-index
17
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Best Systems Paper Award in Memory of Seth Teller (as advisor), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
- 2025: Best Paper Award Finalist (as advisor), IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics
- 2021: RSS Pioneer
- 2021: Best Paper Award Finalist, Robotics: Science and Systems
- 2020: Graduated Non-Convexity (GNC) algorithm integrated into MATLAB Navigation Toolbox; featured in MathWorks News and Stories
- 2020: Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- 2020: Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- 2022: MIT LIDS/ALL Magazine feature: 'Honing Robot Perception'
- 2021 & 2019: MIT News spotlights on robot perception and object detection in clutter
- 2015: Tsinghua Presidential Scholarship
- Recent preprints on certifiable pose uncertainty approximation, discounted adaptive online prediction, sparse polynomial optimization over unbounded sets, and optimal value functions for infinite-horizon pendulum swing-up
Background
- Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- Directs the Computational Robotics Group at Harvard University
- Research focuses on the intersection of theory and practice, particularly robust, efficient computational algorithms with strong performance guarantees that empower next-generation intelligent systems
- Research interests include Robotics, Polynomial and Semidefinite Optimization, Control, and Learning
- Part-time Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research
