My name is Yulun Zhang (张宇伦). I am a first year Ph.D. student in Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Jiaoyang Li. My research interests include human-robot collaboration, multi-robot coordination, evolutionary algorithms, and quality diversity optimization. As a long-term goal, my research focuses on bringing Quality Diversity Optimization and Evolutionary Optimization to Robotics, expanding their applicability and scalability.
Previously, I was a master/undergrad student majoring in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I was working in Interactive and Collaborative Autonomous Robotics (ICAROS) lab at USC with Professor Stefanos Nikolaidis and Matt Fontaine. I was also working in Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory (RESL) at USC with Dr. Ryan Julian and K.R. Zentner.
In addition, I was working in the USC Interaction Lab with Dr. Matt Rueben on Socially Assistive Robotics as well as Professor William Halfond’s group on record and replay tools for Android.
Here is my most recent CV (updated May 2023).
I am also enthusiastic about photography, especially scenery photography. Check out my portfolio and instagram for some of my works.
Ph.D. in Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
MSc in Computer Science, 2022
University of Southern California
BSc in Computer Science, 2021
University of Southern California