Qinxi Yu

University of Toronto

Bio

I completed my Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Toronto, specialist in Computer Science with focus in Artificial Intelligence. My research interests are in robotics, reinforcement learning and machine learning. I am supervised by Professor Animesh Garg at the PAIR Lab. I have also worked with Professor Ken GoldBerg from UC Berkeley and Professor Wen Sun from Cornell. I am currently working at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer. My dream is to make intelligent robots integrated into our daily lives.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Robotics

Education

BSc in Computer Science, 2018 - 2023
University of Toronto

Research Experience

Robot-Assisted Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot

Prof. Ken Goldberg @UC Berkeley & Prof. Animesh Garg @Georgia Tech

July 2023 – October 2023 UC Berkeley, BAIR Lab & Georgia Tech, PAIR Lab

https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/ravsi
Paper accepted at JMRR 2023
Research on Robot-Assisted Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot

(First Author) ORBIT-Surgical - An Open-Simulation Framework for Accelerated Learning Environments in Surgical Autonomy

Prof. Ken Goldberg @UC Berkeley & Prof. Animesh Garg @Georgia Tech

November 2022 – September 2023 UC Berkeley, BAIR Lab & Georgia Tech, PAIR Lab

https://orbit-surgical.github.io
First-Author paper accepted at ICRA 2024
Research on Robot Learning For Surgical Manipulation Tasks With ORBIT (ORBIT-SURGICAL)

ORBIT - A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments

Prof. Animesh Garg @Georgia Tech

July 2021 – November 2022 PAIR Lab

https://isaac-orbit.github.io/
Paper accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA 2023
Develop simulation framework ORBIT for robot learning environments

Hybrid RL with Preference-Based Reward Learning

Prof. Wen Sun @Cornell University

June 2023 – Present Cornell University

Project in progress
Develop new preference-based reinforement learning algorithm.

Publication

Qinxi Yu*, Masoud Moghani*, Karthik Dharmarajan, Vincent Schorp, William Chung-Ho Panitch, Jingzhou Liu, Kush Hari, Huang Huang, Mayank Mittal, Ken Goldberg, Animesh Garg (2023). (Accepted) ORBIT-Surgical: An Open Simulation Framework for Accelerated Learning in Surgical Autonomy. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024).

Project Video

Karthik Dharmarajan, Will Panitch, Baiyu Shi, Huang Huang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Masoud Moghani, Qinxi Yu, Kush Hari, Thomas Low, Danyal Fer, Animesh Garg, Ken Goldberg (2023). Robot-Assisted Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot. Journal of Medical Robotics Research.

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Mayank Mittal, Calvin Yu, Qinxi Yu, Jingzhou Liu, Nikita Rudin, David Hoeller, Jia Lin Yuan, Ritvik Singh, Yunrong Guo, Hammad Mazhar, Ajay Mandlekar, Buck Babich, Gavriel State, Marco Hutter, Animesh Garg (2023). ORBIT: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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