🎓 Carnegie Mellon University MSCV student, affiliated with CMU Robot Perceiving and Doing Lab

🎓 Computer Science major & Math minor, New York University Shanghai class of 2023

💼 Former undergraduate research assistant, New York University Abu Dhabi Collaborative Intelligence Lab, Multimedia and Visual Computing Lab.

🌱 Research areas: Robotics | Affordance Learning | Computer Vision | Natural Language Processing & Knowledge Graphs

🔭 Open for jobs

[1] Learning Generalizable Tool-use Skills through Trajectory Generation Carl Qi, Yilin Wu, Lifan Yu, Haoyue Liu, Bowen Jiang, Xingyu Lin, David Held, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)

[2] Curiosity & Entropy Driven Unsupervised RL in Multiple Environments Shaurya Dewan, Anisha Jain, Zoe LaLena, Lifan Yu, 2023

[3] CrunchQA - A Synthetic Dataset for Question Answering over Crunchbase Knowledge Graph by Lifan Yu, Nadya Abdel Madjid, and Djellel Difallah, accepted for publication at the Ninth International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (BigGraphs 2022) at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 17-20, 2022

[4] Development of an Instance Segmentation Model for Automatic Identification of Recyclable Objects in Construction Sites by Pi Ko, Muhammad Anas Gopee, Lifan Yu, Yaman Garg, Malak Mansour, and Borja Garcia de Soto, the 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2022), Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 16-19, 2022.

[5] Computer vision towards functional scene understanding: Unpacking Activities of Daily Living through AI in Low Vision (LV) by Lifan Yu, and Yi Fang, Third Forum for Women in Research ”Quwa: Women Empowerment for Global Impact” (WIRF2022), Sharjah, UAE, Aug. 25, 2022. Published in the official Forum Booklet: https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Research/Outreach/wirf2022/Documents/Booklet_WIRF2022.pdf

Freelance artist of digital art | Chinese art | watercolor | gouache | sketch

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🔖 My Instagram art account: https://www.instagram.com/lifan_yu_art/

🔍 CV4LV: Computer Vision for people with Low Vision | Simulation and code

🔍 CrunchQA: Knowledge Graph Question Answering over Crunchbase data | code & experiment results

🔍 KUKA robotic arm automatic object sorting | ROS code

🔍 YOLOv5 bounding box adjustment | Code & environment & instructions

🔍 Locally deployed YOLACT model for image segmentation | Code & instructions

🔍 NYUAD Quantum Computing Hackathon project "QVerified" | Code & instructions

🔍 2023 Software Engineering Course | Depression Diagnosis Application

🔍 2022 Information Visualization course | World happiness interactive website source code HERE

🔍 2022 Database Systems course | Database building & web scraper

🔍 2021 Machine Learning course | Sentiment analysis of CoVid-29 Tweets

🔍 2021 Bio-Inspired Robot Systems | Reconfigurable rolling-crawling quadrupedal bot

🔍 2020 Introduction to Computer Science course | Online chat system

🔍 2019 Interaction Lab course | Environmental game: Save Me From Plastic

🔍 2019 Interaction Lab course | Planttalks: a device that reminds you to water your plants

📯 Aug 2022, Best Research Work, Third Forum for Women in Research ”Quwa: Women Empowerment for Global Impact”

📯 Apr 2022, 2nd place winner, NYUAD Hackathon on Quantum Computing for Social Good in the Arab World

📯 May-Aug 2021, Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund award, New York University Shanghai

📯 2020-2021 & 2021-2022, Dean's List for Academic Year, New York University

🎇 IEEE Member since 2022

🎇 IEEE Computer Society Member since 2022