Yifan Zhu
@YifanZhu_
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Incoming assistant professor in the CS department at UIC. Postdoc at Yale. Ph.D at UIUC. Roboticist.
New Haven, CT
Joined May 2022
RT @Nature: A US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Trump proposed for some science age….
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Nature - Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.
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RT @NVIDIARobotics: Need support for your #robotics research? . We’re excited to announce that our Academic Grant Program is now accepting….
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RT @SciRobotics: A new Science #Robotics study describes a low-cost, vision-based alternative to force #torque sensors that provides a soft….
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This is a joint work with the amazing Mei Hao, @XupengZ , Alex Wong, Quentin Bateux, and my postdoc advisor, Aaron Dollar!.
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I’m excited to share that our work has been published in Science Robotics! Our work proposes a vision-only solution to gripper contact force sensing, eliminating the need for F/T sensors. Check this link for details:
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Had a blast at RSS25! It was great to catch up with old friends and meet new friends. Amazing progress in the field. Also grabbed my first drink with my PhD advisor Kris since graduation!
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RT @ianabraha: My lab will be heading over to #RSS2025 ! If you are interested in contact-aware information theory for robotics, reach out….
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I am hiring PhD students for Spring/Fall 26! Please share this with those who are interested in doing a PhD in the field of robotics. Thanks!
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I am happy to share that I will be joining the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) this fall. I would like to thank all those who have offered me great help over the years. P.S. I will be hiring PhD students starting from Spring of 2026!.
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Our paper, "One-Shot Real-to-Sim via End-to-End Differentiable Simulation and Rendering", was recently published at IEEE RA-L. Our method turns a single RGB-D video of a robot interacting with the environment, along with the tactile measurements, into a generalizable world model.
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RT @uofigrainger: A four-year competition resulted in fourth place for @IllinoisCS professor Kris Hauser and his AVATRINA student team. Thi….
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