Scholar
Ye Zhao
Google Scholar ID: YkWi5xoAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,570
H-index
23
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Sep 2025: Fukang and team’s Opt2Skill paper accepted by RA-L, demonstrating how dynamically feasible trajectory optimization data can effectively guide RL with real-world hardware demonstrations.
- Jul 2025: Feiyang and team’s 'Learn to Teach RL' work on robust locomotion over austere terrain accepted by RA-L.
- Jun 2025: Zhaoyuan Gu and team’s STL-MPC push recovery work accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
- May 2025: Zhaoyuan Gu co-authored a survey on humanoid locomotion and manipulation accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, involving 15 institutions.
- Apr 2025: Zhaoyuan Gu awarded ME Ph.D. Research Excellence Award and Woodruff School Community Builder/Leader Fellowship; Zhigen Zhao awarded Woodruff School Roadmap Paper Fellowship.
- Mar 2025: Two RL works published on robust humanoid navigation over austere terrain and social navigation in human crowds.
- Dec 2024: Dr. Aziz Shamsah successfully defended his Ph.D., becoming LIDAR’s first Ph.D. graduate; his legged social navigation paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
- Sep 2024: CoRL paper accepted comparing human tactile demonstration vs. teleoperation for contact-rich manipulation.
- Aug 2024: Optimization-based TAMP survey paper accepted by TMECH.
- Jun 2024: Three papers accepted by IROS—two on legged navigation (social navigation, bipedal navigation under terrain uncertainty) and one on LTL-based task replanning (LTL-D*); social navigation selected for oral presentation.
- May 2024: Transformer-based deformable object manipulation work accepted by TMECH.
- Jan 2024: Three ICRA papers accepted (TAMP_LNF, HeteroTeaming, DGap).
- Jan 2024: Survey paper on humanoid locomotion and manipulation published, co-authored by 18 experts from 15 institutions.
