Welcome to my website!
I am a PhD Student in the Vehicle Autonomy and Intelligence Lab (VAIL) at Indiana University Bloomington, working under the guidance of Professor Lantao Liu.
My research is concentrated on the domain of autonomous navigation, with a specific emphasis on off-road navigation within highly unstructured environments such as forests and caves. In pursuit of an innovative approach to autonomous navigation, I am investigating a novel paradigm that integrates perception, mapping, and control through a unified formulation based on Gaussian processes.
Before I joined VAIL, I was working as a robotics software engineer in the Cognitive Robotics department in TUDelft, The Netherlands. I was managing the daily activities of the RobotUnion project (Part of the EU Horizon 2020 program) and developing ROS-based software components for the participating robotics start-ups.
Latest News & Events
[June 2024]: Joined Stanely Black & Decker as a Software Engineer Intern.
[Jan 2024]: Two papers have been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA24), Yokohama-Japan: "Autonomous Mapless Navigation on Uneven Terrains" & "Gaussian Process-based Traversability Analysis for Terrain Mapless Navigation "
[November 2023]: Our racing team secured 4th place out of 18 in the first phase of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) SIM Races.
[October 2023]: I presented our paper "GP-guided MPPI for Efficient Navigation in Complex Unknown Cluttered Environments" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023) in Detroit, USA.[video][Code]
[September 2023]: I am serving as a Technical Co-lead for our autonomous racing team, we are planning to compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge and the Abu-Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL). [CODE19-Luddy AI]
[August 2023]: I am serving as a Teaching Assistant for the Autonomous Robotics Course.
[July 2023]: I presented our paper "Autonomous Navigation, mapping, and Exploration using Gaussian Processes" at the Robotics: Science and System (RSS23), Daegu-South Korea.[Video]