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, pushing the boundaries of robotics and scientific discovery. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Nankai University, and have interned at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Autodesk Research, HKU, and MSR Asia. My research focuses on:
🛠 Scalable robotic assembly of general objects: I develop adaptive robotic systems that enable autonomous, flexible, and scalable assembly of complex objects. My work spans task and motion planning, policy learning, physics-based simulation, and sim-to-real for precise manipulation.
🔬 Accelerating experimental science via efficient optimization: I develop foundational and classical optimizers that combine probabilistic modeling with exploration to discover better physical structures, materials, robot designs, controllers, and beyond, with minimal experiments.
Outside research, I am a picky foodie spoiled by my wife, who knows how to cook everything.
I am on the job market for research scientist/engineer positions tackling ambitious challenges.
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
