Scholar
Yang Yang
Google Scholar ID: xeR2744AAAAJ
Research Scientist, Meta
Citations & Impact
Citations
412
H-index
9
i10-index
8
Publications
15
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- - STARK: Strategic Team of Agents for Refining Kernels
- - Enhancing Embedding Representation Stability in Recommendation Systems with Semantic ID (RecSys 2025)
- - A Parameter-Efficient Tuning Framework for Language-Guided Object Grounding and Robot Grasping (ICRA 2025)
- - Attribute-Based Robotic Grasping with Data-Efficient Adaptation (T-RO 2024)
- - Adversarial Object Rearrangement in Constrained Environments with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (IROS 2023)
- - IOSG: Image-Driven Object Searching and Grasping (IROS 2023)
- - Breaking the Curse of Quality Saturation with User-Centric Ranking (KDD 2023)
- - Interactive Robotic Grasping with Attribute-Guided Disambiguation (ICRA 2022)
- - Learning Object Relations with Graph Neural Networks for Target-Driven Grasping in Dense Clutter (ICRA 2022)
- - Attribute-Based Robotic Grasping with One-Grasp Adaptation (ICRA 2021)
- - Collision-Aware Target-Driven Object Grasping in Constrained Environments (ICRA 2021)
- - Learning Visual Affordances with Target-Orientated Deep Q-Network to Grasp Objects by Harnessing Environmental Fixtures (ICRA 2021)
- - A Deep Learning Approach to Grasping the Invisible (RA-L 2020)
- - Learning to Generate 6-DoF Grasp Poses with Reachability Awareness (ICRA 2020)
- - Attitude Tracking from a Camera and an Accelerometer on Gyro-less Devices (ISRR 2019)
- Awards:
- - Outstanding Student Paper Award, ICRA 2022
- - UMII-MnDRIVE Graduate Fellowship, UMN 2021
- - Departmental Fellowship, UMN 2016
- - National Scholarship (three consecutive times), Ministry of Education of P.R. China 2012-2014
Research Experience
- Meta, USA | March 2022 - present - Research Scientist (Machine Learning)
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA | May 2020 - Aug 2020 - Research Intern (Computer Vision)
- Google, USA | Jul 2018 - Aug 2018 - Visual-Inertial System Engineer
Education
- Ph.D. - Computer Science, University of Minnesota (UMN), Advisor unknown, Time unknown
Background
- Currently a Research Scientist at Meta. Obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Choice Robotics Lab, University of Minnesota (UMN). Research areas include Robotics and Machine Learning.
Miscellany
- Conference Reviewer: AAAI, ICRA, IROS
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- Teaching Experience:
- - Teaching Assistant, Computer Vision, UMN | Fall 2020
- - Teaching Assistant, Program Design and Development (C++), UMN | Spring 2018
