🎓 Software Engineer @ CapSen Robotics
🎓 Carnegie Mellon University MSCV '24, Robots Perceiving and Doing Lab
🎓 New York University '23 Computer Science & Math
🌱 Research areas: Robotic Learning | 3D Computer Vision | Question-Answering
[1] Learning Generalizable Tool-use Skills through Trajectory Generation 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
[2] Curiosity & Entropy Driven Unsupervised RL in Multiple Environments 2023
[3] CrunchQA - A Synthetic Dataset for Question Answering over Crunchbase Knowledge Graph IEEE Big Data 2022
[4] Development of an Instance Segmentation Model for Automatic Identification of Recyclable Objects in Construction Sites CONVR 2022
[5] Computer vision towards functional scene understanding: Unpacking Activities of Daily Living through AI in Low Vision (LV) WIRF2022). Forum Booklet: https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Research/Outreach/wirf2022/Documents/Booklet_WIRF2022.pdf
🔖 My ArtStation homepage: https://lifanyu.artstation.com/
🔖 My Instagram art account: https://www.instagram.com/lifan_yu_art/
🔖 My literary works: my fictions on Royal Road
🔖 My dance performance on 2024 Greater Pittsburgh Chinese New Year Gala: YouTube | starting 1:25, second row, leftmost
🔍 ToolGen: A robot that makes cooking dough | Project Website
🔍 Franka Robot Control Using Python + Camera Calibration Code | Codebase
🔍 CrunchQA: Knowledge Graph Question Answering over Crunchbase data | code & experiment results
🔍 KUKA robotic arm automatic object sorting | ROS code
🔍 YOLOv5 bounding box adjustment | Code & environment & instructions
🔍 Locally deployed YOLACT model for image segmentation | Code & instructions
🔍 NYUAD Quantum Computing Hackathon project "QVerified" | Code & instructions
🔍 2024 CMU 16826 Learning for 3D Vision | Download index.html in each projX folder to view my submissions
🔍 2024 CMU Learning Based Image Synthesis | See my works in the README links
🔍 2023 Software Engineering Course | Depression Diagnosis Application
🔍 2022 Information Visualization course | World happiness interactive website source code HERE
🔍 2022 Database Systems course | Database building & web scraper
🔍 2021 Machine Learning course | Sentiment analysis of CoVid-29 Tweets
🔍 2021 Bio-Inspired Robot Systems | Reconfigurable rolling-crawling quadrupedal bot
🔍 2019 Interaction Lab course | Environmental game: Save Me From Plastic
🔍 2019 Interaction Lab course | Planttalks: a device that reminds you to water your plants
📯 May 2023, Major Honors in Computer Science, New York University
📯 Aug 2022, Best Research Work, Third Forum for Women in Research ”Quwa: Women Empowerment for Global Impact”
📯 Apr 2022, 2nd place winner, NYUAD Hackathon on Quantum Computing for Social Good in the Arab World
📯 May-Aug 2021, Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund award, New York University Shanghai
📯 2020-2021 & 2021-2022, Dean's List for Academic Year, New York University


