Scholar
Yifei Simon Shao
Google Scholar ID: MpdsJF0AAAAJ
GRASP, PhD Student in Computer Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Citations & Impact
Citations
165
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
12
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several first-author papers in top journals and conferences such as T-RO, RSS, RA-L, and ICRA. Won Best Paper Award (5%) at CoRL workshop and gave oral presentations at various workshops.
Research Experience
- Served as a Research Scientist Intern at Amazon Lab126, working on next-generation robotics. Published papers and won awards at multiple international conferences.
Education
- PhD student at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, co-advised by Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Pratik Chaudhari, and works closely with Prof. Nadia Figueroa.
Background
- From Hangzhou, China. Currently a 4th year PhD student at UPenn’s GRASP Lab, developing generalizable, provable and VLM-driven robot systems for long-horizon, real-world physical human-robot collaboration. Excels at bringing theory to hardware in quadrotors, mobile manipulators, quadrupeds, and autonomous vehicles.
Miscellany
- Runs a RedNote account that interviews robotics researchers and showcases their work.
