Yunsheng Tian
PhD Candidate @ MIT CSAIL
yunsheng@csail.mit.edu
I am a final-year PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Prior to MIT, I obtained a bachelor’s degree from Nankai University. I also interned at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Autodesk Research, the University of Hong Kong, and Microsoft Research Asia. My research focuses on:
Scalable robotic assembly of general objects: Industrial assembly lines are rigidly designed for specific tasks with extensive human effort and no adaptability. I develop techniques for task planning, motion planning, policy learning, simulation platforms, and hardware setups to build flexible robotic systems for assembling complex products with autonomy and robustness.
Accelerating experimental science via efficient optimization: Scientific discovery is often bottlenecked by lengthy experiments and limited resources. I develop optimizers that combine probabilistic modeling with data-efficient exploration to identify optimal solutions with minimal experiments, leading to better physical structures, materials, robot designs, and controllers.
Interests
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Robotics
Planning, Manipulation, RL
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Machine Learning
BayesOpt, Foundation Models
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Computer Graphics
Physics Simulation, CAD
Education
PhD in Computer Science, 2019 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS in Computer Science, 2019 - 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BEng in Software Engineering, 2015 - 2019
Nankai University
