Elvin Yang

I am a first-year Robotics PhD student at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Christoforos Mavrogiannis and graciously supported by a Robotics Departmental Fellowship. My research interests lie broadly around computational human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, and robot learning.

I completed my bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT, I was fortunate to be a member of the Turing Scholars Honors Program and the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory led by Prof. Joydeep Biswas, where I worked on terrain-aware outdoor robot navigation.

Prior to joining U-M, I had the pleasure of working at Amazon Lab126 on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for the Astro consumer robot.

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Research
Learning to Extrapolate Human Preferences for Preference-Aligned Path Planning
Elvin Yang*, Haresh Karnan*, Garrett Warnell, Joydeep Biswas, Peter Stone
ICRA, 2024
Preprint / Supplementary Video / Autonomous Deployment

Self-Supervised Terrain Representation Learning from Unconstrained Robot Experience
Haresh Karnan, Elvin Yang, Daniel Farkash, Garrett Warnell, Joydeep Biswas, Peter Stone
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023
Project Page / Paper / Supplementary Video / Autonomous Deployment

Updates


  • June 2023: Received the 2023 Best Thesis award from the Department of Computer Science, UT Austin
  • May 2023: Awarded a Distinction in Research from the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin
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