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Yuezhan Tao

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS '26 - Software Engineer, Zoox

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Yuezhan is a PhD student studying Computer and Information Science under the supervision of Dr. Vijay Kumar. He is interested in active exploration and multi-robot collaborative mapping leveraging on-board sensing and computation power.

Research Groups

Projects

Agile Autonomous Flight

Agriculture Robotics

Multi Robot Systems

Publications

Vision Transformers for End-to-End Vision-Based Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance

Publisher ICRA

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

Publisher arXiv

Hierarchical LLMs in-the-Loop Optimization for Real-Time Multi-Robot Target Tracking Under Unknown Hazards

Publisher IEEE

Safe Interval Motion Planning for Quadrotors in Dynamic Environments

Publisher ICRA

RT-GuIDE: Real-Time Gaussian splatting for Information-Driven Exploration

Publisher IEEE

Learning to Explore Indoor Environments usingAutonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles

Publisher ICRA

3D Active Metric-Semantic SLAM

Publisher IEEE

Trajectory Optimization with Global Yaw Parameterization forField-of-View Constrained Autonomous Flight

Publisher IROS

SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots using Learning to Predict Information Gain

Publisher ICRA

News

GRASP Laboratory at ICRA 2026

May 29, 2026

GRASP 2026 PhD Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Brag Sheet!

May 14, 2026

GRASP News

ICRA 2022 – GRASP Accepted Papers

February 9, 2022

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Yuezhan Tao