Scholar
Yunsheng Tian
Google Scholar ID: sf6RjM4AAAAJ
Amazon FAR
Citations & Impact
Citations
898
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
17
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Scalable Assembly of General Objects (PhD Thesis, 2025)
- - Fabrica: Dual-Arm Assembly of General Multi-Part Objects via Integrated Planning and Learning (CoRL 2025, Best Paper Award)
- - A multimodal robotic platform for multi-element electrocatalyst discovery (Nature 2025, NeurIPS 2023 RealML Workshop, Best Student Paper Award)
- - ASAP: Automated Sequence Planning for Complex Robotic Assembly with Physical Feasibility (ICRA 2024, MIT MIMO Symposium 2023, Zetta Prize, Best Application of AI in Industry)
- - Boundary Exploration for Bayesian Optimization With Unknown Physical Constraints (ICML 2024)
- - AutODEx: Automated Optimal Design of Experiments Platform with Data- and Time-Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization (NeurIPS 2023 RealML Workshop)
- - Assemble Them All: Physics-Based Planning for Generalizable Assembly by Disassembly (ACM TOG / SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, Journal Track)
Research Experience
- - Applied Scientist, Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics), working towards building human-level robotic foundation models
- - PhD research focus: Scalable robotic assembly of general objects, involving task and motion planning, reinforcement learning, physics-based simulation, geometry processing, and precise manipulation
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019 - 2025, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- - M.S. in Computer Science, 2019 - 2021, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- - B.Eng. in Software Engineering, 2015 - 2019, Nankai University
Background
- Interests: Robotics, Planning, Manipulation, RL, Machine Learning, Foundation Models, BayesOpt, Computer Graphics, Physics Simulation, CAD
- Summary: Currently an Applied Scientist at Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics). Previously earned a PhD from MIT EECS and a bachelor’s degree from Nankai University, and has interned at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Autodesk Research, HKU, and MSR Asia.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Picky foodie, particularly fond of his wife's cooking
