Curriculum Vitae

Education

Aug. 2017 - Present:

Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2017:

Aug. 2013 - Dec.2014:

Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA: 3.86University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA: 3.98University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA: 4.00The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, Ohio, USA

Publications

Publications:

A Data-Efficient Visual-Audio Representation with Intuitive Fine-tuning for Voice-Controlled Robots

Peixin Chang, Shuijing Liu, Tianchen Ji, Neeloy Chakraborty, Kaiwen Hong, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023

Learning Visual-Audio Representations for Voice-Controlled Robots

Peixin Chang, Shuijing Liu, D. Livingston McPherson, and Katherine Driggs-CampbellIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Intention Aware Robot Crowd Navigation with Attention-Based Interaction Graph

Shuijing Liu, Peixin Chang, Zhe Huang, Neeloy Chakraborty, Kaiwen Hong, Weihang Liang, D. Livingston McPherson,

Junyi Geng, and Katherine Driggs-Campbell

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Learning to Navigate Intersections with Unsupervised Driver Trait Inference

Shuijing Liu, Peixin Chang, Haonan Chen, Neeloy Chakraborty, and Katherine Driggs-Campbell IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022

Decentralized Structural-RNN for Robot Crowd Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shuijing Liu*, Peixin Chang*, Weihang Liang†, Neeloy Chakraborty†, Katherine Driggs-CampbellIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021(*, † denote equal contribution)

Robot Sound Interpretation: Combining Sight and Sound in Learning-Based Control

Peixin Chang, Shuijing Liu, Haonan Chen, Katherine Driggs-CampbellIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

Thesis:

iCub Tries to Play and Electrical Keyboard (Senior Thesis)

Peixin Chang, Stephen E. LevinsonSenior Thesis, May 2017. The Highest Honor AwardDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Internship

Jul. 2022 - Oct. 2022:

Applied Scientist Internship, Device, Amazon Lab 126

Developed both hardware and software systems for visual-inertia (VI) SLAM evaluation.

Honors and Awards

Aug. 2017:

Sep. 2015:

May 2014:

Jan. 2014:

Graduate with Highest Honor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe ECE Department requires that a student completes a special project of superior quality

Brian & Sophie Leung Scholarship

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe candidates for this award are the top 10% of the junior class

Eugene C. Gee and Mona Fay Gee Memorial Fund Scholarship

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University

Engineering Dean’s Scholarship

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State UniversityThis award rewards those students who excelled academically during their first term at The Ohio State University.

Teaching

Fall 2021:

Fall 2018 - Fall 2019:

Spring 2018:

Fall 2017:

ECE 470: Introduction to Robotics

Teaching Assistant

ECE 470: Introduction to Robotics

Teaching Assistant

ECE 448: Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant

ECE 437: Sensor Instrumentation

Teaching Assistant

Skills

Programming Languages:

Software for Robotics:

Deep Learning Packages:

Others:

Python, C, C++, MATLAB, System Verilog, Verilog

PyBullet, Gazebo, V-Rep, ROS, YARP

TensorFlow, PyTorch

Unity3D, SolidWorks, Quartus, OpenCV