Yiming's research vision is to enable collaborative autonomous intelligence by empowering robots with human-level spatial, social, and self-awareness, allowing them to actively perceive and plan in unstructured environments, interact effectively with humans or other robots, and leverage as well as augment the associated memory. His research works include developing robust, efficient, and scalable computational models for 3D scene parsing and decision-making from high-dimensional sensory input, as well as curating large-scale datasets to effectively train and verify these models for applications such as connected and autonomous vehicles, assistive and service robotics, and construction automation.
Yiming is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at New York University, where he is a recipient of the NYU Dean's PhD Fellowship and is conducting research with Prof. Chen Feng in the areas of vision, learning, and robotics. He currently holds a position as a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Hang Zhao. He has worked as a student researcher at NVIDIA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Yiming obtained his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering with honors from Tongji University in 2020.