Yifan Hou
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University School of Engineering
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Hou is a robotics researcher and engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic rigor and product-focused development in manipulation and motion planning. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, he focuses on bringing robustness to data-driven manipulation, building on applied-science experience at Amazon where he developed motion-planning and compliance-control primitives for robotic stow-to-fabric systems. His background includes fast-turnaround hands-on implementations of 6D compliance and hybrid force-velocity control on industrial arms and contributions to bi-manual regrasping research at MIT and manipulation planning for home robotics at Toyota Research Institute. Trained with an MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a BE from Tsinghua, he combines deep control expertise with practical systems engineering to move algorithms from simulation to real-world hardware. Notably, he has a track record of delivering complex robot controllers under tight timelines—a skill that informs both his research and applied work.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (46)
pcl9
point-cloud9
cpp8
computer-vision8
solver8
ply8
model-predictive-control7
svm7
automatic-differentiation7
python7
quadratic-programming6
jit6
optimization6
gpu6
composable6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yifan-hou/matlablibrary
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
yifan-hou/cpplibrary
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:59 commits, 64 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
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