Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Associate Director, Center for Intelligent Team Robotics and Human–Machine Collaboration (CITR)
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
ychen [at] cs.nycu.edu.tw
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Yi-Ting Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Director of the Center for Intelligent Team Robotics and Human–Machine Collaboration at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2015 under the guidance of Prof. Jan Allebach. Prior to joining NYCY, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Honda Research Institute USA from 2015 to 2020. In 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher at Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP). In 2014, he conducted computer vision research as a Visiting Researcher in Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang’s group at the University of California, Merced. He also completed an internship at HP, focusing on imaging science. He received his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in 2009. During his undergraduate studies, he was a Visiting Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked with Prof. Thomas Huang.
Dr. Chen has received honors and awards in recognition of his research contributions and academic achievements. His research distinctions include being named a finalist for the IEEE ICRA 2026 Best Paper Award in Robot Learning, receiving the NSTC 2030 International Outstanding Young Scholar Program Award (國科會2030跨世代－國際年輕傑出學者) in 2024, the NYCU Computer Science Outstanding Young Scholar Award (資訊年輕學者卓越貢獻獎) in 2024, the Yushan Fellow Program Administrative Support Grant (玉山學者計畫) from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in 2021, the NYCU Junior Faculty Award (青年講座教授) in 2021, and the Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.
In recognition of his achievements in teaching and higher education, Dr. Chen was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 國際高教會士) by Advance HE in 2023, the NYCU Excellent Teaching Award (校級優良教學獎) in 2023, and the Award for Excellence in English-Medium Instruction (資訊學院英語教學獎) from NYCU’s College of Computer Science in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
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06/2026 [NEW] One paper on Controllable Traffic Simulation is accepted at ECCV'26 [Link]
05/2026 [NEW] Our paper GRITS has been selected as ICRA 2026 Paper Award Finalists on Robot Learning! [Link]
01/2026 [NEW] Four papers are accepted at ICRA'26!!
06/2025 [NEW] Two papers on Visual Representation Learning and Dexterous Hand Manipulation are accepted at ICCV'25!!
06/2025 [NEW] One paper on Aerial Traffic Scene Understanding is accepted IROS'25 [paper]!
05/2025: [NEW] We will host the first X-Sense workshop: Ego-Exo Sensing for Smart Mobility at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii!! [Website][LinkedIn][X]
04/2025: [NEW] One paper on Articulated Object Manipulation working with Prof. David Held @CMU is accepted at RSS'25!
02/2025: [NEW] Two papers on BEV Perception and Radar-Camera Calibration are accepted at CVPR'25!
01/2025: [NEW] A paper on Learning Scene Affordance for Visual-ROI is accepted at ICRA'25!
01/2025: [NEW] A paper on Learning Reward Models from Vision and Language is accepted at ICLR'25!
09/2024: [NEW] A paper on Adaptable Error Detection for Few-shot Imitation is accepted at NeurIPS'24!olicy
09/2024: [NEW] I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR'25.
06/2024: [NEW] Our proposal to NSTC 2030 International Outstanding Young Scholars program (國際年輕傑出學者) is granted！
06/2024: [NEW] Two NSTC Research Grants for University Students of 2024 (沈昱宏＆廖奕瑋)!
05/2024: [NEW] Our work SKT-Hang is featured on NVIDIA blog post! [Link]
04/2024: [NEW] We will co-organize ECCV'24 Workshop on "The Event Detection for Situation Awareness in Autonomous Driving." [Link]
02/2024: [NEW] One paper on Action-centric Representation Learning is accepted at CVPR'24!
01/2024: [NEW] Two papers on Risk Object Identification and Task-oriented Representation learning for Robotics are accepted at ICRA'24!
12/2023: [NEW] Gave a talk on "Can Generative AI enhance driving safety?" at U.S.–Taiwan Sustainability and Innovation Forum. [Link]
11/2023: [NEW] I will serve as Area Chair for ICDL'24.
09/2023: [NEW] 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award, NYCU! [Link]
08/2023: [NEW] A paper on food Item Property Understanding via Action Perception is accepted at CoRL'23 [paper][Project Page]!
07/2023: [NEW] A paper on Fine-grained Interactive Traffic Scenario Understanding is accepted at ICCV'23 [paper][Project Page]!
07/2023: [NEW] DROID: Driver-centric Risk Object Identification is accepted at TPAMI [paper]!
07/2023: [NEW] Certify as a Fellow of the HEA (FHEA) [Link].
06/2023: [NEW] I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR'24.
06/2023: [NEW] A paper on Content Estimation via Tactile Interactions is accepted at IROS'23 [paper]!
06/2023: [NEW] Two NSTC Research Grants for University Students of 2023!
05/2023: [NEW] Gave a talk at AI Forum 2023 [link].
05/2023: [NEW] Gave a talk at NTHU ISA [Link].
01/2023 [NEW] A paper on Real-time Monocular Visual SLAM is accepted at ICRA'23 [paper][code]!
12/2022 [NEW] Gave a talk at NTHU CS [Link]
10/2022 [NEW] A paper on Driver's Risk Perception is accepted at the NeurIPS'22 ML4AD workshop!
09/2022 [NEW] A paper on Road Scene Representation Learning is accepted at CoRL'22!
07/2022: [NEW] Serve as Guest Editor for Trel-TAAD: Special Section on Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Driving [link].
01/2022: [NEW] Hosting CVPR'22 workshop "Human-centered Intelligent Services: Safe and Trustworthy" [Website].
12/2021: [NEW] A great collaborative experience with doctors on intelligent medical image analysis! [link]
11/2021: [NEW] Receive BMVC'21 Outstanding Reviewer! [link].
12/2021: [NEW] A paper on few-shot imitation is accepted at AAAI'22 (15% acceptance rate)! [link]
10/2021: [NEW] A journal paper on Explainable and Advisable Model accepted by Applied AI Letters! [link]
10/2021: [NEW] A paper on Birds-Eye-View Segmentation is accepted at BMVC'21! [link]
10/2021: [NEW] Receive The Yushan Fellow Program Administrative Support Grant from the Ministry of Education [Link]!
10/2021: [NEW] A paper on semi-supervised 3D object detection is accepted at 3DV'21 [link]
08/2021: [NEW] I will serve as Senior Program Committee for AAAI'22.
05/2021: [NEW] Receive CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer! [link].
05/2021: [NEW] Gave a talk at NYCU CS [link] and NTHU ISA [link].
03/2021: [NEW] Gave a talk at NTU CSIE [Link].
02/2021: [NEW] Join NYCU CS as an assistant professor [webpage]!
01/2021: [NEW] Gave a talk at Microsoft AI R&D center and Academia Sinica [Link].
IEEE Transaction on Reliability: Special Section on Trustworthy AI for Autonomous Driving [link]
ECCV'26 X-Sense Tutorial: X-Sense: Cooperative Perception and Distributed Foundation Models for Smart Mobility [link]
ECCV'26 DriveX Workshop: Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving [link]
ICCV'25 Workshop on X-Sense: Ego-Exo Sensing for Smart Mobility [link]
ECCV'24 Workshop on ROAD++: The Event Detection for Situation Awareness in Autonomous Driving [link]
CVPR'22 workshop "Human-centered Intelligent Services: Safe and Trustworthy (2022) [link]
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2024-2026)
IEEE Conference on Development and Learning (2024)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022, 2026-2027)
ACM Computing Surveys
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Pattern Recognition
ROBOMECH Journal
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2019–2023)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2019, 2021, 2023)
European Conference on Computer Vision (2020, 2022, 2024)
International Conference on Learning Representation (2022-2024)
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2022-2024)
International Conference on Machine Learning (2024)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2021-2024)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2020, 2022)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020-2021)
British Machine Vision Conference (2020-2023)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020)
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (2017–2022)
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (2018–2020)
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2018)
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (2016, 2020)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (2021)
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2022)