About me [CV]
I am a Ph.D. candidate in ECE at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where I am advised by Professor Michael Yip. Before joining UCSD, I received my bachelor’s degree in EE from National Taiwan University.
My research focuses on efficient, safe, and generalizable algorithms that enable autonomous medical operations, such as surgeries. By developing core techniques in probabilistic localization, constrained optimization, and reinforcement learning, I aim to advance robot sensing, planning, and adapting capabilities in real medical environments.
I am currently on the academic job market!
News
- Oct. 2024: I will attend the Rising Stars in EECS Workshop at MIT!
- Sep. 2024: Our paper on Incremental RL for Automating Multiple Surgical Tasks is now published.
- Jul. 2024: Our paper on SURESTEP: An Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization Framework to Enhance Visual Tool Tracking for Robust Surgical Automation is accepted to IROS 2024!
- Apr. 2024: Our paper on Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization for Robust Surgical Automation is now published.
- Dec. 2023: We release the implementation of Knowledge-Grounded RL algorithms on GitHub.
- Sep. 2023: Our paper on Flexible Attention-Based Multi-Policy Fusion for Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning is accepted to NeurIPS 2023!
- Jun. 2023: I will join Amazon Robotics in Massachusetts as an applied scientist summer intern (hosted by Yash Oza and Sara Nambi)!
- Jun. 2023: Our paper on Finding Biomechanically Safe Trajectories for Robot Manipulation of the Human Body in a Search and Rescue Scenario is accepted to IROS 2023!
- Jun. 2023: Our extended abstract Real-Time Constrained Pose Tracking of An In-Hand Suture Needle with Robust Uncertainty Estimation for Autonomous Robotic Surgery won first place in best poster awards at ICRA 2023’s workshop: New Evolutions in Surgical Robotics: Embracing Multimodal Imaging Guidance, Intelligence, and Bio-inspired Mechanisms!
- Jun. 2023: Our paper Real-Time Constrained 6D Object-Pose Tracking of An In-Hand Suture Needle for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery won Outstanding Healthcare and Medical Robotics Paper at ICRA 2023!