Dr. Yulun Tian is an Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan. Prior to this appointment, he spent time as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCSD Contextual Robotics Institute (CRI) and the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He received the B.A. degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2017, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (2019 and 2023). His work received the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Multi-Robot Systems, the 2022 King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, a 2021 Honorable Mention from the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and a 2020 Honorable Mention from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
"I am a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan, working under the guidance of Professor Yulun Tian. My research interests include collaborative SLAM and neural map representation, with a focus on field robotics."
Jaeho Shin
"Loves musing about all things robotics. My research interests are SLAM, manifold, and optimization."
"I am a Ph.D. student with research interests in active perception, SLAM, and novel environment representations for autonomous systems. My work focuses on developing intelligent sensing and mapping strategies that enable robots to better understand and interact with complex, real-world environments."