Yunfan Ren
Scholar

Yunfan Ren

Google Scholar ID: V11NovMAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotics and Perception Group, UZH
Robotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
677
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
16
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
9
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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).