Yinsen Jia | 贾寅森

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Member, General Robotics Lab (GRL)

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University advised by Professor Boyuan Chen. I am interested in Data-driven Control, Self-guided Skill Retrieval for Manipulation, Multi-modality Sensor Fusion, and Reinforcement Learning. My research aims to help robots independently interact with, understand, and exert control over the world. In the future, they will become not only smarter assistants but also trustworthy friends 🤖.

I obtained the Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (2022) and the Bachelor's degree of Electrical and Automation Engineering from Nanjing Normal University (2020). I was also a short-term student at Rice University majoring in Electrical Engineering (2021).

Before join Duke, I was a research assistant in Robot Learning and Control Group of Nanjing University for Professor Chunlin Chen and the leader of UAV Communication Link Denoising Group in Jiangsu Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering with Professor Wei Yan. During my Master' study, I was working with Professor Shuran Song in Columbia Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, and interned as a deep learning researcher at Kodiak Robotics.

Highlights

Clutterred simulation scene generation.

Retrieve objects using tactile feedback.

Meta-control dynamic grasping.

News

[2024-09] Our paper "ClutterGen: A Cluttered Scene Generator for Robot Learning" got accepted to CoRL 2024!
[2024-06] The paper "Dynamic Grasing with a Learned Meta-Controller" got accepted to IEEE CASE 2024!
[2023-08] Started my Phd journey at Duke!!
[2023-02] I was granted the Master of Science Award of Excellence by Columbia University.
[2022-11] The paper "Dynamic Grasping with a Learned Meta-Controller" won NeurIPs Registration Award at 5th Robot Learning Workshop of NeurIPs 2022.
[2022-05] I joined Kodiak Robotics as a deep learning intern mentored by Dr. Collin Otis.
[2022-05] I was honored as M.S. EE Honors Student at Columbia University!
[2021-09] I started my master's study at Columbia University, majoring in Electrical Engineering - Data Driven Analysis and Computation.
[2021-01] I received Rice ECE Future Star Scholarship!
[2020-10] The paper "Path Planning with Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance..." got accepted to IEEE CNSC 2020.
[2020-06] I graduated from Nanjing Normal University and honored as Outstanding Graduated Student (5%).
[2020-01] The paper "An UAV Wireless Communication Noise Suppression Method..." got accepted to Radio Science.

[2019-12] I joined Robot Learning and Control Group of Nanjing University as a research assistant.
[2019-07] The paper "Study on the Influence of Electromagnetic Pulse..." got accepted to American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
[2019-06] The paper "Investigation on conducted EMI noise source..." got accepted to IET Power Electronics.
[2018-12] I received the NARI Group Scholarship!

Publications

*: indicating equal contribution. You can also check my Google Scholar profile.

ClutterGen: A Cluttered Scene Generator for Robot Learning

Yinsen Jia, Boyuan Chen

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
Workshop on Mastering Robot Manipulation at CoRL 2024

[Paper] [Webpage] [Video] [Supplementary]
Tactile-based Object Retrieval From Granular Media

Jingxi Xu*, Yinsen Jia*, Dongxiao Yang*, Patrick Meng, Xinyue Zhu, Zihan Guo, Shuran Song, Matei Ciocarlie

Preprint

[Paper] [Webpage] [Video]
Media Coverage: [IEEE Spectrum Video Friday]

Dynamic Grasping with a Learned Meta-Controller

Yinsen Jia*, Jingxi Xu*, Dinesh Jayaraman, Shuran Song

Robot Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2024

🏆 NeurIPs Registration Award

[Paper] [Webpage] [Video]

Path Planning with Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Using Reinforcement Learning for Six-axis Arms

Yinsen Jia, Yichen Li, Bo Xin, Chunlin Chen

IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (CNSC) 2020

[Paper] [Github]

An UAV Wireless Communication Noise Suppression Method Based on OFDM Modulation and Demodulation

Yinsen Jia, Xinqi Tu, Wei Yan

Radio Science

[Paper] [Github]

Investigation on conducted EMI noise source impedance extraction for electro magnetic compatibility based on SP-GA algorithm

Mengxia Zhou, Yang Zhao, Wei Yan, Yi Cao, Moeed Abdul, Yinsen Jia, Xi Wang

IET Power Electronics

[Paper]

Study on the Influence of Electromagnetic Pulse on UAV Communication Link

Yinsen Jia, Xinqi Tu, Wei Yan, Enrong Wang, Yang Zhao, and Shuqing Ding

American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

[Paper] [Github]