Yuanqi Yao
Scholar

Yuanqi Yao

Google Scholar ID: s482QHoAAAAJ
INSAIT
RoboticsManipulation
Citations & Impact
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Citations
185
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
13
 
Co-authors
6
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications: IROS 2025, RSS 2025, CVPR 2025, ECCV 2024, NeurIPS 2024, etc.; Awards: 2nd place at ECCV 2024 AIM Depth Upsampling Challenge, 1st place at ICCV 2023 The ROAD++ Challenge Agent Detection Track, 2nd place at ICCV 2023 The ROAD++ Challenge Road Event Detection Track, 3rd place at ICRA 2023 The RoboDepth Challenge, 1st Scholarship for Postgraduate Students 2023-2024, The People’s Scholarship in China 2018-2020, National Second Prize (Top 1%) in the National University IoT Design Competition Huawei Cup 2019.
Research Experience
  • 2023.11 - 2025.07, Embodied AI Intern, Shanghai AI Laboratory; 2023.08 - 2023.11, Computer Vision Intern, Baidu VIS; 2023.06 - 2023.08, Computer Vision Research Intern, Lenovo Research; 2022.06 - 2022.10, Autonomous Driving Perception Intern, NIO.
Education
  • Ph.D. student at INSAIT, supervised by Prof. Luc Van Gool, Dr. Danda Paudel, and Dr. Jan-Nico Zaech; Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), advised by Prof. Junjun Jiang.
Background
  • Research Interests: Embodied AI, particularly VLA and robotic foundation models. Completed a long-term internship at the Shanghai AI Laboratory, supervised by Dr. Dong Wang and Prof. Xuelong Li.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Cat lover, has three cats: Toby (2011-2024), Hz (2023-), and HuHu (2023-).