Zhutian (Skye) Yang

Zhutian Yang

Hello! My name is Zhutian and I'm a final-year PhD candidate in robotics at MIT. I develop algorithms for solving long-horizon manipulation problems in geometrically complex environments. I use a combination of deep learning and planning methods.

I'm co-advised by Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez in the Learning and Intelligent Systems group. I'm currently a part-time research intern at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Large Behavior Models team. I was an ex-NVIDIA intern in the Seattle Robotics Lab. I obtained bachelor's degree in information engineering and media at NTU, Singapore.
Zhutian Yang

Research

Robots exhibiting long-horizon behavior, such as unpacking grocery bags and heating up the takeouts, must be able to plan quickly and execute robustly in semantically rich, geometrically complex environments. Enabling robots to perform language-instructed, multi-step mobile manipulation tasks requires foundational models for planning and acting. Training and evaluating such models in simulation for diverse robot embodiments holds significant economic and scientific potential. Towards building fully autonomous and intelligent robot systems, I've worked on the following problems in the field of robot learning and planning:

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