Yulin Li

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore NUS, working with Prof. Fan Shi.

I received my Ph.D. degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where I was jointly supervised by Prof. Jun Ma and Prof. Michael Yu Wang. Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the B.Eng. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from Tongji University.

My research interests focus on motion policy design for robotic manipulation and navigation in complex environments. I am particularly interested in developing intelligent and generalizable motion policies that leverage optimization-based planning principles together with learning-based methods. My goal is to enable robots to interact with their surroundings in a safe, adaptive, and efficient manner, while maintaining strong connections to physically grounded models and principled reasoning.

During my Ph.D. studies, I collaborated with Prof. Xindong Tang on the theory and application of Moment and Polynomial Optimization. I also visited the Computational Robotics Lab at Harvard University, where I worked with Prof. Heng Yang on high-performance numerical solvers for Contact-Implicit Motion Planning.