Yijiong Lin
Postdoctoral Research Associate
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYijiong Lin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory with nine years of experience focused on multimodal sensing and sim-to-real deep reinforcement learning for dexterous robotic manipulation. He led doctoral research on "Sim-to-Real Deep Tactile Policies" and now contributes to the ARIA-funded Democratising Co-Design of Hardware and Control for Robot Dexterity project under Professors Nathan Lepora and Edward Johns. His background blends engineering mathematics, mechanical engineering and hands-on robot learning—from an MEng and visiting research at UM-SJTU to a PhD from the University of Bristol—giving him a strong cross-disciplinary foundation in tactile sensing, control and policy transfer. He has taught and supervised robotics students, running critical-thinking seminars and assessments, which informs his practical approach to research translation. Notably, his work emphasizes combining tactile modalities with reinforcement learning to bridge simulation and real-world performance, aiming to make dexterous manipulation more accessible to wider research and engineering communities.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Robotics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Robotics at Guangdong University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at University of Bristol
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (59)
intel10
toolbox10
hardware10
payment-methods10
sdk10
in-app-purchase10
computer-vision10
q-learning10
reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
camera-api9
gymnasium9
realsense9
robustness9
stable-baselines9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
birlrobotics/ITER_KER_GER
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
YijiongLin/SPAIR_with_RL
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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