Xinyi Yuan

Xinyi Yuan

Research student in Osaka University

🙌Hi! I’m Xinyi Yuan, currently as a research student in Harada Lab, Osaka University, supervised by Prof. Weiwei Wan. Previously, I got my MPhil degree at Intelligent Transportation (INTR) Thrust in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou campus), supervised by Prof. Meixin Zhu. I earned my Bachelor’s in Robotics Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, exploring human-robot interaction strategies for upper-limb rehabilitation in Brain-Robot Rehabilitation Technology Lab. From Feb. 2024 to Sep. 2024, I remotely engaged in fascinating legged robot research at the Shang Hai AI laboratory supervised by Dr. Chenjia Bai.

Besides engineering, I believe that finance is another perspective for understanding what is happening in the world. So, I am working hard to become a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder (Progress: level 2 candidate this year). I also enjoy exploring different cities and trying out the food.

I’m pretty interested in robotics, but still new to it, and you’re more than welcome to write me an email to connect (or make friends)! Let’s explore the exciting world together! 🌌

✨ News

  • 2024.10:  📌 I joined Harada Lab in Osaka University as a research student.
  • 2024.10:  🎉 Please view our new work on diffusion-based locomotion policy on project website!
  • 2024.06:  📅 My MPhil graduate examination will be arranged on 2nd, July!
  • 2024.04:  🎉 Our paper is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
  • 2024.03:  🎉 Our paper is accepted by the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposiumk (IV 2024).

đź“ťPublications

* Co-first author, ✉️ Corresponding author.

  • Preference Aligned Diffusion Planner for Quadrupedal Locomotion Control
    Xinyi Yuan*, Zhiwei Shang*, Zifan Wang, Chenkai Wang, Zhao Shan, Zhenchao Qi, Meixin Zhu✉️, Chenjia Bai✉️, Xuelong Li.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13586
  • Effective Reinforcement Learning Control using Conservative Soft Actor-Critic.
    Zhiwei Shang*, Xinyi Yuan*, Wenjun Huang, Meixin Zhu✉️, Chenjia Bai, Di Chen.
    Preprint. (Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering)
  • AggFollower: Aggressiveness Informed Car-Following Modeling.
    Xianda Chen, Xinyi Yuan, Meixin Zhu✉️, Xinhu Zheng, Shaojie Shen, Xuesong Wang, Yinhai Wang, Fei-Yue Wang.
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (IF=8.2, JCR Q1)
  • Learning Realistic and Reactive Traffic Agents.
    Meixin Zhu✉️, Di Chen, Xinyi Yuan, Zhiwei Shang, Chenxi Liu.
    35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024)

👩‍🎓 Educations

  • Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2024
    MPhil(Master of Philosophy), Intelligent Transportation Thrust, System Hub
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou campus).
  • Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
    Bachelor’s Degree, Robotics Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering
    Southern University of Science and Technology.

👩‍💻 Research Experience

  • Shang Hai AI laboratory (Remote Research)
    Feb. 2024 - present
    Supervised by Dr. Chenjia Bai
    Motivation: reduce manual reward function design in RL-based quadruped robot locomotion tasks.
    Main approaches: approximate the complex distribution of the reward function r(s, a) using the diffusion model.

  • Drive AI laboratory, HKUST (GZ)
    Dec. 2022 - present
    Supervised by Prof. Meixin Zhu
    Motivation: incorporate driving aggressiveness into data-driven models, and realize safe and human-like driving behavior modeling.
    Main approaches: embed aggressiveness tokens into Physics-Informed LSTM architecture, test on the Lyft and HighD datasets.

  • Brain-Robot Rehabilitation Technology Lab, SUSTech
    Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2022
    Supervised by Prof. Mingming Zhang
    Motivation: utilize online metabolic cost estimation to build a human-in-the-loop rehabilitation strategy.
    Main approaches: use multimodal physiological signals to estimate metabolism by multiple linear regression, and design interaction strategies.

  • Shenzhen Subway WebGIS Qualitative and Quantitative Hybrid Research
    Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2022
    Supervised by Prof. Lili Wang
    Field research, literature review, and geographic information visualization on Shenzhen’s cultural landscape development.

đź‘” Internships

  • Gongzhiyi Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen
    Jun.2022 - Aug. 2022
    User research, user education, and product design for the Series A+ funded blueprint management software “Evercraft.”
  • Guoxin Hongsheng Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., Shenzhen
    Mar. 2021 - Jun. 2021
    Research intern, Private Equity Investment Department (IV)