Heng Yang
Assistant Professor at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHeng Yang is an assistant professor at Harvard SEAS, pursuing research at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, optimization, and machine learning. He earned his PhD in Robotics from MIT and previously worked as a research scientist at NVIDIA, bringing industry-scale experience to academia. His doctoral work at MIT's SPARK Lab focused on sensing, perception, autonomy, and robot kinetics, complemented by internships at Intel Labs and collaboration with Philips Research North America. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University in economics and mechanical engineering, and completed a Master’s and PhD at MIT, including a project on ultrasound elastography imaging. Based in Boston, he translates rigorous theory into scalable, real-world robotic systems and mentors the next generation of engineers.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
5.0/5.0, 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
autopilot10
mixed-integer-programming10
ros210
drones10
geometric10
ros10
mavlink9
point-clouds9
robotics9
px49
rover9
convex-optimization9
3d-reconstruction9
slam9
raspberry-pi9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MIT-SPARK/STRIDE
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
MIT-SPARK/CertifiablyRobustPerception
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 2 years 5 months
semidefinite-programmingroboticsconvex-optimizationpoint-cloud-registrationcomputer-vision
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