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yijie liao homepage robotics control yijie liao incoming phd student computer science national university of singapore lyjie u nus edu lyjie umich edu github google scholar linkedin about news education publications research about me safe precise embodied ai for robotics and interactive autonomy i am an incoming phd student in computer science at the national university of singapore where i will join prof shao lin s group my research sits at the intersection of control learning and robotics with current interests in humanoid manipulation autonomous driving and safety critical systems i received dual undergraduate degrees from the university of michigan and shanghai jiao tong university a b s e in computer engineering from um and a b eng in mechanical engineering from sjtu i have been fortunate to work with prof changliu liu at cmu ri prof tulga ersal at um and prof hesheng wang and prof zhongqiang ren at sjtu outside of research i enjoy playing soccer and watching k pop i am a fan of cristiano ronaldo and twice humanoid manipulation autonomous driving model predictive control safety critical learning updates news 2026 6 paper accepted to iros 2026 on reinforcement learning guided model predictive control for autonomous racing 2026 5 named shanghai outstanding graduate 10 300 2026 4 received the um eecs award the highest undergraduate honor in the university of michigan eecs program 1 713 2025 1 collaborative work on search based path planning accepted to icra 2025 background education 2026 present national university of singapore phd student computer science undergraduate university of michigan b s e computer engineering shanghai jiao tong university b eng mechanical engineering minor in computer science minor in embodied ai selected work publications iros 2026 deep reinforcement learning guided model predictive control for preventing overtakes in autonomous racing yufei xi yijie liao tulga ersal ieee rsj international conference on intelligent robots and systems equal contribution corresponding author icra 2025 search based path planning in interactive environments among movable obstacles zhongqiang ren bunyod suvonov guofei chen botao he yijie liao cornelia fermuller ji zhang ieee international conference on robotics and automation focus research interests humanoid manipulation dexterous robot manipulation in dynamic contact rich and cluttered environments autonomous driving decision making and control under uncertainty competition and human interaction safety critical world models learning models that support safety aware planning verification and control updated june 2026 lyjie u nus edu