Yuchen Liu

About Me

I am a fourth-year PhD student at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Ahmed H. Qureshi at the CoRAL Lab. My research focuses on spatial representations for robot learning and motion planning. I develop neural fields and physics-informed learning methods that help robots represent geometry and connectivity for efficient planning in unknown and large-scale environments.

I am currently a Research Intern at Dexmate AI (Summer–Fall 2026), working on motion planning and AI agents.

In Summer 2025, I worked as a visiting scholar at the TEA Lab at Tsinghua University, where I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Huazhe Xu on household mobile manipulation. Our work uses object-centric alignment to connect semantic navigation with manipulation and transfer manipulation skills across environments; the resulting paper has been submitted to IEEE RA-L.

Before joining Purdue, I earned my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at New York University (2019–2023), where I worked with Prof. Chen Feng at the AI4CE Lab on robotics simulation.

I am seeking Summer 2027 research internships in spatial representation, robot learning, and motion planning. Get in touch.

Outside research, I enjoy detective novels, strategy games, and spending time with my cats.