2024 — Present
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Penn State University · University Park, PA
Research focus: aerial manipulation, embodied autonomy, robot perception, planning, and control.
Yufei Jiang · yosefjiang@gmail.com
Aerial Robotics · Embodied Autonomy
Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering
Building autonomous aerial robots that can perceive, plan, and physically interact with the real world.
Aerial Manipulation Robot Perception Planning & Control
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Education
2020 — 2024
B.Eng. in Intelligent Science and Technology
Nankai University · Tianjin, China
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Experience
2024 — Present
Research Assistant
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University
Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant
Penn State University
AERSP 304 · System Dynamics and Control
Fall 2024
Teaching Assistant
Penn State University
AERSP 313 · Aerospace Analysis
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Selected Publications
AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) · 2026
A Self-Supervised Learning Approach with Differentiable Optimization for UAV Trajectory Planning
* Equal contribution
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2026
Aerial Manipulation with Contact-Aware Onboard Perception and Hybrid Control
* Equal contribution
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2026
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