- Recipient of NSF Career Award, Amazon Research Award, Ford URP Award, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award, Young Investigator Award at International Symposium of Flexible Automation, IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation, IFAC Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and many best/outstanding paper awards
- Published the book “Designing robot behavior in human-robot interactions” with CRC Press in 2019
- Co-founder of the International Neural Network Verification Competition launched in 2020
- Her research has been covered by IEEE Spectrum, ATI News, Robtiq Blog, etc., and received support from NSF, NIST, DARPA, ARM Institute, Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, etc.
Research Experience
- Postdoc at Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (2018) before joining CMU in January 2019
- Worked at Mechanical Systems & Control Lab at UC Berkeley
- Co-founded Instinct Robotics, a robotics company for intelligent manufacturing
Education
- Ph.D. in Engineering from University of California at Berkeley (2017)
- Master's degrees in Engineering and Mathematics from University of California at Berkeley (2014, 2015 respectively)
- Bachelor's degrees in Engineering and Economics from Tsinghua University (2012)
Background
- Research Interests: Design and verification of human-centered intelligent systems with applications to manufacturing and transportation
- Professional Fields: Robot arms, mobile robots, legged robots, and humanoid robots
- Biography: Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), leading the Intelligent Control Lab
Miscellany
- Senior member in IEEE, and member in ASME and AAAI
- Demonstrated their human-robot collaboration system for flexible manufacturing to the US President in 2022
- Member of the academic council for Grit Venture from 2021 to 2023
- Served as the associate editor of Mechatronics from 2023 to 2024 and currently the associate editor of ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control