Hi. My name is Yun and I grew up in Taipei, went to school in Hawaii, and spent a decade at MIT to obtain my Bachelors, Masters, and PhD. I was in SPARK Lab advised by Professor Luca Carlone and my research was about helping robots see and compressing the world into an actionable representation.
I am now co-founding a stealth startup. Working on and bringing autonomy to large machines that operate at the fabric of our society. I am still passionate about robot perception and how we can encode the world into usable representations for the robot, but now also about how to act on these representations in a robust manner in very real world scenarios.
News
- 2025-06-30: Defended my PhD Thesis!
- 2025-06-24: Awarded outstanding reviewer at RSS 2025
- 2024-09-20: Clio featured by MIT News
- 2024-07-19: Khronos won Best System Paper at RSS 2024
- 2024-06-03: Started internship at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Summer 2024
- 2023-06-02: Kimera-Multi won the 2023 King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- 2021-09-21: Participating in the Final Event of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
- 2020-02-27: Team CoSTAR won first place at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit
- 2019-08-22: Won second place at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit alongside Team CoSTAR