I obtained Ph.D. degree at ECE Department of Georgia Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Patricio A. Vela. Prior to that, I received my M.S. and B.S. from the Department of EECS, Peking University, in 2013 and 2010 respectively.

I am interested in a variety of challenging problems in computer vision and robot perception. A coarse categorization of my works (click for details):

A couple of places that I am fortunate to work at ...

  • Computer Vision research intern @MagicLeap. May. 2017 - Aug. 2017

    • I worked on line-assisted 6DoF pose tracking in low-texture indoor environments.

  • Computer Vision research intern @Clips team, Google. May. 2016 - Aug. 2016

    • I worked on quasi-dense visual feature tracking for wide-baseline video stabilization.

  • PhD @IVALab, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, ECE Dept., Georgia Tech. Aug. 2013 - Jul. 2019

    • I work with Prof. Patricio Vela on efficient, accurate Visual SLAM.

    • Specifically, I am interested in constructing a compact yet accuracy-preserving optimization problem that can be solved efficiently for pose tracking and mapping modules.

    • The direct applications of my research include: 1) on-board state estimation for small robots such as drones, 2) augmented reality devices.

  • Research intern @GM Collaborative Research Lab, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Jan. 2013 - May. 2013

    • I worked with Dr. John M. Dolan on the tasks of segmentation and tracking, using point cloud data from multiple LiDAR sensors mounted on an autonomous vehicle.

  • Research assistant @POSS Group, Peking University. Dec. 2008 - Jul. 2013

    • I worked with Prof. Huijing Zhao and Prof. Hongbin Zha on segmentation, moving object tracking, and semantic mapping using 3D point cloud data.

A collection of platforms that I enjoyed working on ...