Yijiang Huang
SNSF Ambizione Junior Group Leader at Computational Robotics Lab - ETH Zürich
Switzerland
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Top SchoolYijiang Huang is an SNSF Ambizione Junior Group Leader and roboticist with a decade of experience at the intersection of architecture, computation, and construction automation. Trained at MIT (Ph.D. candidate in Building Technology) and USTC (Computational and Applied Mathematics), he designs intelligent robot systems to simulate, quantify, and augment the processes that turn design concepts into built reality. His work progresses from hands-on robotic fabrication to algorithmic modeling, reflecting roles from developer at Archi-Solution Workshop to postdoc and now group leader at ETH Zürich. Yijiang’s research blends rigorous computational methods with practical fabrication experiments, enabling measurable insights into how design decisions propagate through construction workflows. Based in Switzerland, he advances robotic intelligence for design and construction while maintaining a rare dual fluency in architectural thinking and mathematical modeling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Architecture: Building Technology, Ph.D., Architecture: Building Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.5/4.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.5/4.3 at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (152)
kinematics10
simulator10
toolbox10
bullet10
julian10
robotics10
integral10
collision-detection10
mechanical-engineering10
pybullet10
julia10
collision10
civil-engineering10
automatic-differentiation10
simulation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yijiangh/compas_fab_pychoreo
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Sequence and motion planning plugin for compas_fab
Contributions:194 commits, 1 PR, 119 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sequencepythoncompasmotionfab
yijiangh/coop_assembly
Feb 2020 - Feb 2023
Geometry generation of robotically assembled spatial structures
Contributions:237 commits, 156 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
spatialgeometrysimulationhierarchical
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