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1. Nov 2026Invited talks at two CoRL 2026 workshops.
2. Jul 2026Invited talk at RSS 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Mobile Manipulation.
3. May 2026Invited talk at the SJTU V2X Innovation Center.
4. May 2026Two papers accepted at RSS 2026: MINT and Vec-QMDP.
5. Feb 2026Started serving as Area Chair for RSS 2026.
6. Sep 2025Hi-Drive accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
7. Sep 2025Three papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025: UniDomain, Tru-POMDP, and ForceVLA.
8. Sep 2025Started lecturing AI1804 “Algorithm Design and Analysis” at SJTU.
9. Jul 2025My course CS7355 won the SJTU Outstanding Course Award.
10. Jun 2025Invited talk at CCF Young Elite Forum (YEF) 2025.
11. Feb 2025Invited talk at XYZ Robotics.
12. Jan 2025Joined the School of Artificial Intelligence, SJTU.
13. Sep 2024Joined Shanghai Innovation Institute as a Full-time Faculty.
14. Feb 2024Designed and launched CS7355 “Frontiers in Autonomous Driving” at SJTU SEIEE.
15. Jan 2024Started serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
16. Dec 2023“What Truly Matters in Trajectory Prediction” accepted at NeurIPS 2023.
17. Aug 2023“Closing the Planning-Learning Loop” published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
18. May 2023Invited talk at Kuwa Robot: “How does a robot drive better than us?”
19. 2023Served as Associate Editor for ICRA 2023.
20. Dec 2022LEADER — Best Paper Award Finalist at CoRL 2022 (oral acceptance rate 6.5%).
21. Aug 2022Joined the Qing Yuan Research Institute, SJTU as Associate Professor.
22. Aug 2022Co-taught CS3317 “Artificial Intelligence” (sophomore undergraduate, 50+ students) at SJTU SEIEE — Autumn 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.
23. Aug 2022Invited talk at SenseTime: “How does a robot drive better than us?”
24. Feb 2022GAMMA published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
25. 2022Program Committee member, ICAPS 2022.
26. Jul 2021HyP-DESPOT published in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
27. Jul 2021MAGIC accepted at RSS 2021.
28. Jul 2021Main organizer of the RSS 2021 Workshop on Integrating Planning and Learning.
29. 2021Organization committee member, RSS Pioneers Workshop 2021.
30. 2021Co-taught CS4278/CS5478 “Intelligent Robots” at NUS (100+ graduate students); delivered lectures on POMDP planning and robot systems.
31. Aug 2020Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, Brown University: “How does a robot drive better than us?”
32. Jun 2020SUMMIT accepted at ICRA 2020.
33. 2020Program Committee member, RSS 2020.
34. Nov 2019“Context and Intention Aware Planning for Urban Driving” presented at IROS 2019.
35. Nov 2019Invited talk at ISEE AI, an MIT startup on autonomous driving.
36. Oct 2019AI Lunch talk at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore: “Hybrid intelligence of robots: modeling, decision making, and learning”.
37. Jun 2019LeTS-Drive accepted at RSS 2019.
38. 2019Program Committee member, CoRL 2019.
39. Oct 2018PORCA published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
40. Jun 2018HyP-DESPOT accepted at RSS 2018.
41. May 2018Invited talk at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University: “Planning under uncertainty in robotics: theory to practice, and serial to parallel”.
42. 2017Co-taught CS6244 “Robot Motion Planning & Control” at NUS; delivered the lecture on sampling-based motion planning.
43. Jul 2017“Automatic Path Planning for Dual-Crane Lifting” published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII).
44. Jul 2016Defended PhD thesis at Nanyang Technological University.
45. Oct 2013Best Paper Award, 2013 Symposium on GPU Computing and Applications (co-organized by NVIDIA), for the GPU-accelerated genetic-algorithm path planner.