Yan Wu https://yan-wu.com Roboticist, PhD, SMIEEE Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:56:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://yan-wu.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-logo-32x32.png Yan Wu https://yan-wu.com 32 32 Papers Accepted at IROS 2022 https://yan-wu.com/2022/06/30/papers-accepted-at-iros-2022/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:14:57 +0000 https://yan-wu.com/?p=377 Congratulations to:

  1. Boyuan and team for the paper on “Tactile-Guided Dynamic Object Planar Manipulation” ;
  2. Fen and team for the RA-L paper on “Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning for Active Object Detection”

accepted at the IROS 2022!

]]> Paper Accepted at CVPR 2022 https://yan-wu.com/2022/03/30/paper-accepted-at-cvpr-2022/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:08:00 +0000 https://yan-wu.com/?p=374 Congratulations to Xiuchao and team on having the paper accepted at CVPR 2022 on CRAFT: Cross-Attentional Flow Transformers for Robust Optical Flow!

]]> RA-L Papers Accepted at ICRA 2022 https://yan-wu.com/2022/02/07/ra-l-papers-accepted-at-icra-2022/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:31:45 +0000 https://yan-wu.com/?p=352 Congratulations team on having papers accepted by both RA-L and ICRA 2022:

  1. Boyuan et al, Parameterized Particle Filtering for Tactile-based Simultaneous Pose and Shape Estimation;
  2. En Yen et al, Hierarchical Point Cloud Encoding and Decoding with Lightweight Self-Attention based Model.
]]> Congratulations to Nicolas and team! https://yan-wu.com/2021/12/07/congratulations-to-nicolas-and-team/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 03:06:16 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=343 Two recent awards were won by Nicolas and the Collab-AI team:

  1. ICSR 2021 Best Presentation Award
  2. A*STAR Scientific Conference 2021 Best Poster Award

Congratulations!

]]> Congratulations to 2 A*STAR Scholarship Awardees https://yan-wu.com/2021/10/26/congratulations-to-2-astar-scholarship-awardees/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:09:19 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=331 Continue reading Congratulations to 2 A*STAR Scholarship Awardees →]]> Congratulations to Thomas Dudley, who has successfully gained admission for PhD candidacy at Univ. Nottingham with full a scholarship funded by Nottingham and the A*STAR A*RAP scheme! Tom will start his PhD from Dec 2021 onwards under joint supervision with Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz.

Congratulations to Ben Zandonati (Univ. Cambridge) who has been awarded the A*STAR International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) for his 2022 summer research programme at the lab!

]]> New Projects Starting https://yan-wu.com/2021/09/27/new-projects-starting/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:36:38 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=300 Continue reading New Projects Starting →]]> Congratulations to

  1. Qilong being awarded the project on “Advanced ROS2-native Platform Technologies for Cross-sectorial Robotics Adoption” as a Co-Investigator funded by the MTC Industry Alignment Fund – Pre-positioning.
  2. Wenyu being awarded a project each by A*STAR Careers Development Fund and A*STAR Robotics Horizontal Technology Programme Office Seed Fund (Co-I) to work on tactile-guided manipulation and hybrid compliance control.

]]> Papers Accepted at IROS 2021 https://yan-wu.com/2021/08/01/papers-accepted-at-iros-2021/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 03:27:36 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=297 Continue reading Papers Accepted at IROS 2021 →]]> Congratulations to:

  1. Ruihan and Tian for their paper on “On Explainability and Sensor-Adaptability of a Robot Tactile Texture Representation Using a Two-Stage Recurrent Networks” accepted at the main conference;
  2. Serena for having her paper on “The consequences of being human-like – an intercultural study” accepted at the IROS 2021 Workshop on Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots
]]> Multiple papers have been accepted at ICRA 2021 https://yan-wu.com/2021/03/01/multiple-papers-accepted-at-icra-2021/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 03:52:04 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=240 Our papers on 1) dexterous manoeuvre through touch in a cluttered scene; 2) efficient multiview object detection with adaptive action prediction have been accepted for publication at ICRA 2021! Congratulations to the teams!

]]> Congrats to the Collab AI WP1 Project Team! https://yan-wu.com/2021/02/13/congrats-to-the-collab-ai-wp1-project-team/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 02:51:49 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=236 Congratulations to the project team working in the Collaborative AI Programme WP1 for clinching the “The AAAI-21 Best Demonstration Award”!

]]> Congrats to Boyuan – NSS(PhD) Class 2021! https://yan-wu.com/2020/12/21/congrats-to-boyuan-nssphd-class-2021/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:39:26 +0000 http://yan-wu.com/?p=231 Congratulations to Boyuan who has been awarded the prestigious A*STAR National Science Scholarship (PhD) fully funding her PhD studies at any university of his choice!

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