Hongyu Li (李鸿宇)
Welcome! I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Brown University, working with Prof. George Konidaris, and a research intern at Robotics and AI Institute, working with Jiahui Fu and Lingfeng Sun. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Srinath Sridhar, Prof. Stefanie Tellex, and Prof. Yu Xiang (UT Dallas). My research interests revolve around the convergence of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision, particularly in the co-design of robot perception (including vision and touch) and planning. Perception and planning play crucial roles in various robotics domains. I am currently focused on developing deep learning models for environmental and object interaction.
I’ve completed three research internships: one at Amazon Robotics (Innovation Lab) and two at Honda Research Institute. Before joining Brown University, I worked with Prof. Huaizu Jiang and Prof. Taskin Padir at Northeastern University.
I serve as a reviewer for conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV, Humanoids, AAAI, and CHI, as well as journals including RA-L and Neurocomputing.
I’m happy to chat about research or life – just send me an email.
News
Jun 6, 2025 | I delivered an oral presentation at the New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS). |
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Apr 11, 2025 | V-HOP is accepted by RSS 2025. See you in Los Angeles ![]() |
Apr 1, 2025 | I will join Robotics and AI Institute as a research intern. |
Jan 31, 2025 | My work during Amazon internship is accepted by ICRA 2025. See you in Atlanta ![]() |
Jul 1, 2024 | Four papers (including one RA-L) are accepted at IROS 2024, including one oral presentation. |
Experience
Robotics and AI Institute (fka Boston Dynamics AI Institute)
06/2025 - Present
Research Intern
Mentors: Jiahui Fu and Lingfeng Sun
Amazon Robotics (Innovation Lab)
05/2024 - 09/2024
Applied Scientist II Intern
Hosts: Taskin Padir and Tye Brady
Honda Research Institute USA
09/2022 - 12/2022, 05/2023 - 08/2023
Research Intern
Hosts: Nawid Jamali and Soshi Iba
Selected Publications
Symbol * or † represents equal contribution or advising.2025
- arXivUniTac: Whole-Robot Touch Sensing Without Tactile SensorsPreprintPresented at RSS 2025 HRCM workshop.
- RSSV-HOP: Visuo-Haptic 6D Object Pose TrackingIn Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025Oral presentation at New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS).
Presented at ICRA 2025 ViTac workshop.
2024
- IROS
2023
- Toward Efficient Stereo-based Obstacle Detection Using Deep Neural NetworkNortheastern University, 2023
- RA-L / ICRAViHOPE: Visuotactile In-Hand Object 6D Pose Estimation with Shape CompletionIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023Unfortunately, we are unable to publish the code and the dataset per the company policy.
Presented at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan.
Presented at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Touch Processing in New Orleans, LA.