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Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin
Welcome to my webpage! I am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan studying Robotics. I'm in the Computational Autonomy and Robotics Laboratory, supervised by Prof. Maani Ghaffari. I received my Master's degree from UM Robotics. Prior to that, I was a research assistant at National Taiwan University, where I earned my bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. My research interests are in robot perception and SLAM. My current research topic is learning symmetry-preserving features for robot localization and place recognition.
I am actively looking for full-time positions in the industry.
Contact & Links
Email: chienerh@umich.edu
Google Scholar for a list of publication, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, GitHub, CV
Recent News
Jun 2024 - Tzu-Yuan (Justin) Lin and I gave a Robotics Seminar at the University of Notre Dame, "It's the Same Everywhere: Leveraging Symmetry for Robot Perception and Localization." [slides]
Apr 2024 - I helped with the Women in Robotics and Data Science Panel & Networking Reception. We had amazing panelists and got great insights from them.
Apr 2024 - WiRE+ is nominated for the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award which awarded to an individual or team for the development or implementation of a program, innovation, or intervention (within the last 3 years) that supports equity in STEM at UM.
Apr 2024 - I am co-organizing a RSS workshop on "Geometric and Algebraic Structure in Robot Learning" and I will attend RSS in-person!
Mar 2024 - Anthony Chen, a high school student I mentored via the Veritas AI Fellowship program, published his paper Evaluation of 3D Object Detection Methods in Autonomous Driving using the KITTI Dataset on The National High School Journal of Science (NHSJS) [paper link].
Oct 2023 - I presented my late-breaking result on SE(3)-Equivariant Transformer for Low-Overlap Point Cloud Registration at IROS 2023, Detroit.
Jan 2023 - Co-found and co-direct Women+ in Robotics and Engineering (WiRE+) to connect robotics graduate students at UM who identify as women and focus on providing them community, mentorship, and support.
Dec 2022 - I presented my paper SE(3)-Equivariant Point Cloud-based Place Recognition at Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022.
Jul 2022 - I hosted a personal website workshop for WiRE+. We went through some basics of building personal websites, and we built our personal website together! [Slides]
June 2022 - My paper SE(3)-Equivariant Point Cloud-based Place Recognition is accepted for Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022.
June 2021 - I am awarded Study Abroad Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
May 2020 - I received my Robotics Master's Degree at the University of Michigan!
December 2019 - I am awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship and the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship.