CV

General Information

Full Name Yingyu Wang
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • Jul. 2021 - Dec. 2025
    PhD
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
    • Supervisor by Prof. Shoudong Huang and A/Prof. Liang Zhao
    • Research Directions
      • SLAM
      • Mapping
      • State Estimation
  • Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2020
    Master
    Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
    • Supervised by Prof. Junyu Dong
    • Research Directions
      • Computer Vision
      • SLAM
  • Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2017
    Bachelor
    Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
    • Major
      • Computer Science

Experience

  • Jun. 2026 - Present
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
  • Sep. 2025 - May 2026
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Robotics Institute, University of Technology Sydney
  • Aug. 2022 – Dec. 2025
    Teaching Assistant
    School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
  • Mar. 2025 – Sep. 2025
    Visiting Ph.D.
    School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

Academic Service

  • Editorial Role
    • Associate Editor for IROS 2026
  • Workshop Organizer
    • Lead Organizer, RSS 2026 Workshop: From Perception to Action: Representation-Centric Robot Autonomy
  • Journal Reviewer
    • T-RO, IJRR, R-AL, AURO
  • Conference Reviewer
    • RSS 2025, ICRA 2024–2026, IROS 2023–2025

Open Source Projects

  • 2021-2024
    Occupancy-SLAM
    • The open-sourced code of Occupancy-SLAM which published on T-RO 2025 and RSS 2022. The method can estimate more accurate maps and poses for both 3D and 2D cases compared with SOTA methods by simultaneously optimizing robot poses and occupancy map.

Academic Interests

  • SLAM
    • Non-featured Map Representation
    • 3D Lidar SLAM
    • Optimization
    • State Estimation