Yifei Dong

Hi! I’m a PhD student at KTH in Stockholm, working with Prof. Florian T. Pokorny and Xianyi Cheng at Duke. I hold an M.Sc. from ETH Zürich and a B.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My résumé.

My research explores the fundamental principles that enable robust manipulation. I am especially interested manipulation of rigid and deformable objects via nonprehensile or tool-assisted interactions. With the broader goal of achieving human-level robustness in robotic systems, I have been actively exploring topics such as robot hardware–control co-design, adversarial learning, and energy-based caging grasps.

If you are a motivated master’s or undergraduate student with a solid background in robotics and an interest in these topics, feel free to reach out regarding potential research projects.