Yang(Kevin) Liu

I'm a junior undergraduate student at the UMN, pursuing a B.A. in Computer Science. I work with Hongbo Zhang at the Legged Robot Lab, focusing on perceptive locomotion for legged robots. I was a research intern at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, where I had the privilege of being advised by Prof. Hang Zhao and Ziwen Zhuang.

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Research

I'm interested in robot learning, focusing on perceptive locomotion, humanoid loco-manipulation, manipulation, and visuo-tactile learning.

PUMA enables robust quadruped parkour by learning a perception-driven foothold prior from depth and proprioception.

An end-to-end perception-to-planning model that maps raw images to feasible trajectories satisfying formal STL constraints.

Projects

Here are some fun projects I've worked on outside robotics.

Semantic-aware Feature-3DGS compression enables efficient scene understanding by pruning Gaussians based on their semantic-loss contribution while stabilizing features via local kNN consistency.

Miscellanea

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