Yiqing's resume

Education

  • 2020-2026
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    National University of Singapore
    • Advised by Prof. David Hsu
    • GPA: 5.00
  • 2016-2020
    B.A. in Computer Science and B.A. in Applied Mathematics
    National University of Singapore
    • Computer Science GPA: 4.81
    • Applied Mathematics GPA: 4.89

Research Experience

  • 2026-Present
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Stanford University, Computer Science
    • Working with Prof. Jiajun Wu
    • Developing structured interfaces for generalist robot policies, with a focus on human–VLA communication, explicit concept memory, compositional skill chaining, and adaptive planning and policy steering.
  • 2025-2026
    Research Intern
    Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), Robotics (Seattle)
    • Working with Prof. Dieter Fox
    • Developed methods for task and goal specification for robot foundation models, studying how human objectives can be represented, grounded, and translated into robot-executable behavior.
  • 2023-2024
    Visiting Ph.D. Student
    CSAIL, MIT
    • Advised by Prof. Leslie Kaelbling and Prof. Tomás Lozano-Pérez
    • Developed "Set It Up!", a neuro-symbolic system that interprets and optimizes under-specified instructions for tabletop arrangements using very few demonstrations. Published at RSS 2024.

Professional Service

  • 2026, Nov
    LEAP Workshop at CoRL 2026
    • Workshop organizer.
    Website
  • 2024, Nov
    Second LEAP Workshop at CoRL 2024
    Munich, Germany
    • Co-organizer for the 2nd Workshop on Learning Effective Abstraction for Planning (LEAP) at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024.
    Website
  • 2024, July
    Task Specification Workshop at RSS 2024
    Delft, Netherlands
    • Main organizer for the Workshop on Task Specification at RSS 2024.
    Website
  • Conference Reviewer
    ICRA, RSS, AAMAS, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML

Awards

  • 2022, 2025
    NUS Research Achievement Award
    National University of Singapore
  • 2020
    President's Graduate Fellowship
    National University of Singapore

Invited Talks & Presentations

  • 2026
    Invited Talk, Creativity in Assembly Workshop, IROS
    Website
  • 2025
    Invited Talk, Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, Stanford University
  • 2025
    Invited Talk, Personal Robotics Lab, University of Washington
  • 2025
    Invited Talk, Robotics Team, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
  • 2025
    Oral Presentation, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

Mentorship

Connie Jiang Summer Intern — Now B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023)
Aishik Pyne M.S., NUS — Now Founder, Stealth Startup (2024)
Wanchen Li Ph.D., University of Montpellier — Ongoing Research Mentorship (2025–present)
Claire Yang Ph.D., University of Washington — Ongoing Research Mentorship (Jan 2026–present)
Emily Jin Ph.D., Stanford University — Ongoing Research Mentorship (Mar 2026–present)
Jisu Han Ph.D., Seoul National University — Ongoing Research Mentorship (Mar 2026–present)
Yize Liu Ph.D., Stanford University — Ongoing Research Mentorship (Jul 2026–present)

Teaching

  • 2021-2022, SEM2
    CS4278/CS5478 Intelligent Robots, Algorithms and Systems
    National University of Singapore
    • Teaching Assistant
    • Conducted tutorials, graded assignments, and provided feedback to students.