Bio

I joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Robotics in Fall 2023. Prior to joining U-M, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I received my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021, and my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015. I am the director of the Agile Robot Control and Design (ARCAD) Lab, which conducts research on the development of control algorithms and custom hardware for legged robots, with applications to high-performance autonomous robots.

News

• 08/28/2023: I started as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan

• 01/17/2023: I served as an associate editor of IROS 2023

• 11/28/2022: Our paper "Orientation-Aware Model Predictive Control with Footstep Adaptation for Dynamic Humanoid Walking" is presented at Humanoids

• 11/28/2022: Our paper "Humanoid Self-Collision Avoidance Using Whole-Body Control with Control Barrier Functions" is presented at Humanoids

• 03/11/2022: I am one of the associate co-chairs of TC on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics

• 6/17/2021: Our paper "Representation-Free Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Motions in Quadrupeds" is selected as the 2020 Technical Committee (TC) Best Paper Award Finalist on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics Best Paper Award

• 6/1/2021: First day as postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• 5/30/2021: Our paper "Hybrid Sampling/Optimization-based Planning for Agile Jumping Robots on Challenging Terrains" is presented at ICRA