Ziyi Yang
Scholar

Ziyi Yang

Google Scholar ID: sH5h3iAAAAAJ
Research assistant, Brown University
RoboticsLanguage GroundingPlanning
Citations & Impact
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Publications
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Publications
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Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'SkillWrapper: Skill Abstraction in the Era of Foundation Model' accepted and presented at LEAP workshop; paper 'Plug in the Safety Chip: Enforcing Constraints for LLM-driven Robot Agents' presented at ICRA 2024; paper 'Lang2LTL' presented at CoRL and 'Safety Chip' presented at LangRob workshop; paper 'Grounding Complex Natural Language Commands for Temporal Tasks in Unseen Environments' accepted by CoRL 2023; paper 'Lang2LTL: Translating Natural Language Commands to Temporal Robot Task Specification' accepted by LangRob workshop at CoRL; paper 'GASCN: Graph Attention Shape Completion Network' accepted by 3DV; paper 'Natural Language for Human-Robot Collaboration: Problems Beyond Language Grounding' accepted by AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS.
Research Experience
  • Currently conducting research at Brown University; previously worked on vision-language navigation at Northeastern University; interned at Analogic.
Education
  • Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Brown University, advised by Prof. Stefanie Tellex and Prof. George Konidaris; M.S. degree in Robotics from Northeastern University, working with Prof. Lawson Wong; background in Mechanical Engineering, transferred to robotics in 2020 after an internship at Analogic.
Background
  • Research interests: intersection of Robotics, Language, and Planning; goal is to bridge human concepts and robot behaviors with structural systems (neuro-symbolic, compositional, hierarchical, etc.).
Miscellany
  • Enjoys reading manga, especially works by Osamu Tezuka; enjoys playing The Binding of Isaac; currently living a happy life with his wife and cat in Providence.