Scholar
Yanan Sui
Google Scholar ID: UIgYoCgAAAAJ
Tsinghua University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,268
H-index
19
i10-index
26
Publications
20
Co-authors
56
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Listed as one of MIT TR35 (Innovator Under 35) in China by MIT TechReview in 2020. His work on Safe Optimization is regularly taught in CS and Aero/Astro courses at multiple universities. His Preference Optimization work has been applied to clinical treatments and led to a best paper award at ICRA’20. Published numerous papers in international conferences such as CoRL, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.
Research Experience
- Currently an associate professor at Tsinghua University, working at the National Engineering Research Center of Neuromodulation. Previously, he was an instructor at Stanford, teaching AI-Assisted Health Care; a teaching assistant at Tsinghua for Contemporary Methods in System Neuroscience Research; and mentored research projects in Computation and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech and Computer Science at Stanford.
Education
- Received undergraduate degree from Tsinghua University; Ph.D. from Caltech, supervised by Profs. Mu-ming Poo, Joel Burdick, and Yisong Yue; Postdoc at Stanford University, working with Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
Background
- Research interests: Machine Learning for Control and Dynamical Systems, Neural Engineering, Robotics. Specializes in areas such as learning to move, optimization and reinforcement learning with safety constraints, neuro-musculo-skeletal modeling, etc.
Miscellany
- Undergrads interested in Human Factors and Artificial Intelligence can contact him via email to learn about research programs like SRT @ Tsinghua, SURF @ Caltech, and UGVR @ Stanford.
