I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). My research interests include robot perception, robot learning, and autonomous navigation. I lead the Lu’s Navigation and Autonomous Robotics (Lunar) Lab, where we develop autonomous systems for ground, aerial, and space applications. Currently, we are most interested in

• Physics-informed robot learning (dynamics learning, RL, IL)
• Multi-robot active simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
• Multi-modal 3D scene understanding, foundation models for 3D perception

I received a B.S. in Automation from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2013 and an M.S. in Control Engineering from Beihang University in 2016. After that, I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2021 and 2022, respectively, advised by Ryan Eustice, Jessy Grizzle and Maani Ghaffari. Before joining Georgia Tech, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) from 2022 to 2023, working with Soon-Jo Chung and Yisong Yue. I was named a Rising Star in Data Science in 2022 and received the IROS Best Paper Award on Agri-Robotics Finalist in 2023.

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024 – present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, California Institute of Technology, 2022 – 2023

Education

Ph.D., Robotics, University of Michigan, 2022
M.S., Robotics, University of Michigan, 2021
M.S., Control Engineering, Beihang University, 2016
B.S., Automation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2013

Teaching & Mentoring

Faculty Mentor, Create-X Student Team, Spring 2025
Lecturer, AE3531 Control System Analysis and Design, Spring 2024 – present
Graduate Student Instructor, ROB101 Computational Linear Algebra (U of M), Fall 2021
Graduate Student Instructor, NA568/EECS568/ROB530 Mobile Robotics: Methods and Algorithms (U of M), Winter 2018

Professional Service

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025 – present
Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023 – present
Associate Co-Chair, IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer and Robot Vision, 2022 – present
Area Chair, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
Program Committee, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2024
Co-organizer, ICRA Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics, 2025
Co-organizer, CoRL Workshop on LocoLearn: From Bioinspired Gait Generation to Active Perception, 2024

Institute Affiliations

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)
Decision and Control Laboratory (DCL)
Center for Human-AI-Robot Teaming (CHART)

Selected Awards

IROS Best Paper Award on Agri-Robotics (Finalist), 2023
DAAD AInet Fellowship, 2023
Rising Star in Data Science, University of Chicago, 2022
National Graduate Scholarship of China, 2015

Publications

Please see my google scholar page and here.