Published 20 papers, 12 of which he is the first or co-first author, including publications in leading journals and conferences such as Science Robotics, Nature Communications, T-RO, etc. Won paper awards at ICRA and IROS. Served as an Associate Editor for IEEE RA-L and ICRA 2026. Contributed to open-source projects, with research code on GitHub accumulating over 4k stars.
Research Experience
Completed multiple research projects during his Ph.D. and joined the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich as a postdoc after graduation.
Education
Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Fu Zhang; B.E. in Automation from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).
Background
Research Interests: Autonomous Aerial Robots, Swarm Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning. Background: Yunfan Ren is a postdoctoral researcher at the HKU MaRS Lab, collaborating with Professor Davide Scaramuzza.
Miscellany
Actively contributes to open-source projects, notable repositories include SUPER (★622), ROG-Map (★460), FAST-LIVO2 (★2.8k), and LiDAR_IMU_Init (★1k).