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My name is Yang Zhou, a PhD candidate at New York University.
I am a Ph.D. researcher and robotics engineer specializing in real-time perception, multi-robot autonomy, and high-speed aerial robotics. My work focuses on building learning-enabled robotic systems that operate reliably in complex, GPS-denied, real-world environments, with an emphasis on end-to-end deployment rather than isolated algorithms.
My research interests lie in the intersection of Robotics and Computer Vision. You can visit Research to know more details.
I have designed and deployed autonomy stacks for agile quadrotors and heterogeneous multi-robot systems, spanning visual–inertial state estimation, collaborative perception, learning-based planning, and control. My research has led to multiple publications in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, ICRA, and related venues, and my systems have been validated through outdoor field deployments and human–robot interaction experiments.
Beyond research, I am deeply invested in systems engineering and open-source robotics infrastructure. I maintain Rust-based robotics frameworks Copper-rs for autonomy and middleware, aiming to improve performance, safety, and reproducibility in robotic systems. I am particularly interested in bridging research and product, translating advanced perception and autonomy into scalable, real-world robotic platforms.
Contact: Linkedin | Twitter | [email protected] | Resume | Google Scholar | GitHub
GitHub: Peng — A minimal quadrotor autonomy framework in Rust)
News:
2026-05 We are organizing the second Rust for Robotics workshop at IROS 2026. I will also present one paper at IROS 2026.
2026-04 One paper was accepted in RA-L.
2026-01 Four papers were accepted in ICRA 2026.
2025-12 One paper was accepted in ROBOVIS2026. One paper was accepted in RA-L.
2025-09 I gave a talk at RustConf 2025: Rust for Robotics: Safer, Faster Systems for Autonomous Applications.
2025-05 We organized the first Rust for Robotics workshop at ICRA 2025. I also presented one paper at ICRA 2025.
2024-12 One paper was accepted in ROBOVIS2025.
2024-08 My project Peng got up to TOP5 and ranked 14th of day on Y Combinator Hacker News.
2024-05 One paper was accepted in ICUAS 2024. One paper was accepted in RA-L.
2024-01 I served in Challenge Organization Committee in The 1st WACV Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving ( LLVM-AD). One paper was accepted in WACV 2024 Workshop.
2022-07 One paper was accepted in IROS 2022.
2022-06 I start to work as a Research Intern in Microsoft Mixed Reality Team and Microsoft Research.
2022-02 I will join the Microsoft Hololens Team as a Research Intern this Summer.
2022-01 One paper was published in RA-L with ICRA 2022 option.
2020-11 One paper was published in SSRR 2020.
2019-08 I joined the ARPL at NYU.
