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General Information

Full Name Mukai Yu
Date of Birth 4th Feburary 2001
From Shenzhen, Guandong, China
Languages Mandarin Chinese, English

Education

Experience

  • 2023 Sept - Dec
    Huawei, Hong Kong Research Center, Design Automation Lab
    Research Intern
    • Participating in software development of EDA design verification via emulation on FPGA
    • Research on multiprocessor scheduling algorithm for EDA Netlist
  • 2023 Jan - Aug
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, AirLab
    Research Associate I
    • Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Scherer
    • Publish IEEE IROS paper & release thermal image dataset for object detection
      • WIT-UAS: A Wildland-Fire Infrared Thermal Dataset to Detect Crew Assets from Aerial Views
    • Lead hardware & perception algorithm development of the WildFire Project
    • Redesign & manufacture Open Research Drone
    • Develop & deploy SSD object detection deep learning model on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier with hardware acceleration
  • 2022 May - Aug
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, AirLab
    Visiting student intern
  • 2021 May - Aug
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Undergraduate Research Opportunity program
    • Supervisor: Professor Dan Xu
    • Researched in real-time 3D reconstruction SLAM unsupervised deep learning algorithms
    • Compared depth estimation results on different unannotated video datasets
    • Reported algorithm summary of 10+ papers

Extracurriculum

  • 2019 - 2020
    HKUST ENTERPRIZE Robomaster Team
    Senior Software Engineer
    • Built quaternion mathematical library for rigid transformation
    • Implemented robust IMU complementary filter and stabilization Gimbal algorithm
  • 2018 - 2019
    Robomaster Robotics High School Summer/Winter Camp
    Runner-up Team
    • Participated consecutively 4 cohorts : 2018 winter & summer, 2019 winter & summer
    • Lead Embedded, Software, and Mechanical development, captain last time
    • Built robots with Mecanum wheel Omnidirectional chassis and pneumatic actuator from scratch in 2 weeks

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • ASMPT Technology Bronze Award
    • NED EIC Category 4 Champion
    • Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Tech FYP Sponsorship
  • 2023
    • University's Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students
  • 2022
    • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award
    • Shui On Innovation Fund Student Awards
  • 2021
    • Dean's List
  • 2019
    • DJI RoboMaster Scholarship
    • University Scholarship

Course work

  • 2025 Fall
    11-851 Talking to Robots
    Carnegie Mellon University
    • Topics : LLMs and Foundation Models, Instruction following and Dialogue, Task and Motion Planning, End-Effector and Real-Valued Control, Semantic Mapping (2D and 3D), World Models
  • 2025 Spring
    16-825 Learning for 3D Vision
    Carnegie Mellon University
    • Topics : Explicit, Implicit, and Neural 3D Representations; Differentiable Rendering, Single-view 3D Prediction; Neural Rendering; Multi-view 3D Inference; Generative 3D Models; Shape Abstraction; Mesh and Point Cloud Processing
  • 2024 Fall
    16-831 Introduction to Robot Learning
    Carnegie Mellon University
    • Topics : Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Q-Learning, Policy Gradient, Actor-Critique Methods, Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, Bandits and Preference-Based Learning
  • 2023 Fall
    COMP 5222 Advanced Machine Learning with Graphs
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Graph based semi-supervised learning, Network embedding, Graph neural networks, Graph subgraph isomorphism, Knowledge Graphs
  • 2022 Fall
    COMP 6411B Advanced Topics in 2D and 3D Deep Visual Scene Understanding
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Semantic Segmentation, Depth Estimation, 2D/3D Object Detection, Multi-Task Learning, 3D Scene Reconstruction, Implicit Representation Learning, Visual SLAM
  • 2022 Fall
    COMP 4421 Image Processing
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : Image Filtering, Compression, Segmentation, Registration, Morphological Processing, Description, Recognition
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 498 Machine Perception
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : SLAM, 3D reconstruction, Object Detection, Bayesian Filter
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 446 Machine Learning
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : discriminative models, generative models, reinforcement learning models
  • 2022 Spring
    CS 425 Distributed Systems
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Topics : distributed transactions, consensus, mutual exclusion, concurrency control
  • 2021 Fall
    COMP 5411 Advanced Computer Graphics
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Topics : 3D model representation and manipulation, rendering, GPU computing
    • Rendering Project - Music Visualizer

Skills

Programming C/C++ · Python (NumPy, PyTorch, JAX, DDP) · MATLAB · Javascript · HTML · CSS · GLSL
Robotics ROS 2 · Jetson · STM32 · UAV · Camera Calibration · Sensor Timesync · PID · MPC · MPPI · SLAM
AI Computer Vision · 3D Gaussian Splatting · Reinforcement Learning · Graph Neural Network
Software Linux (Ubuntu) · Docker · Git · CI/CD · Cloud Computing (SLURM) · Web Development · Solidworks
Language Mandarin Chinese (Native) · English (TOEFL Speaking 28/30)

Academic Interests

  • Robotic Perception
    • Unified Spherical Models,
    • 3D/4D Vision
    • Differentiable Rendering
  • Robotic Control
    • Object Manipulation
    • Skill Learning
    • Reinforcement/Imitation Learning
  • Multimodal Learning and Large Models for Robotics

Hobbies

  • Sport : Basketball, Table Tennis, Water Sport
  • Museum, Movie, Hiking
  • Baking
  • Video Gaming