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.

With the ultimate goal of understanding human-level robustness under uncertainty and achieving it in robotic systems, my work combines physics priors with learning methods to solve challenging manipulation planning problems. I am especially interested in manipulation of rigid and deformable objects via nonprehensile or tool-assisted interactions. Topics that I have been actively exploring: robot hardware-control co-design, grasping by caging, game, and energy-based caging grasps.

If these topics interest you as well, feel free to reach out for a chat!