Tzu-Yuan (Justin) Lin

Hello! I’m a Robotics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Maani Ghaffari.

My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and robot perception. I’m particularly interested in exploring the symmetry structure of a system to develop efficient and generalizable robot algorithms. During my Ph.D., I have worked on robot state estimation, representation learning, and geometric deep learning. Recently, I have a growing interest in dynamics modeling using neural networks.

Prior to my Ph.D. journey, I obtained my M.S. in Robotics at the University of Michigan, where I did research on several visual odometry projects. Before that, I received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

If you find any of my work interesting, feel free to reach out to me at tzuyuan at umich dot edu. I’m happy to chat!

News

[06/2024] Chien Erh (Cynthia) Lin and I gave a joint Robotics Seminar at the University of Notre Dame, “It’s the Same Everywhere: Leveraging Symmetry for Robot Perception and Localization.”
[05/2024] I will be at CVPR, RSS, and ICML this year. If you see me in person, feel free to come and say hi! :)
[05/2024] Our paper Lie Neurons got accepted by ICML 2024!
[02/2024] I gave a guest lecture in ROB 530: Mobile Robotics at the University of Michigan.
[11/2023] I passed my thesis proposal!