About me

I am a Ph.D student in Robotics & Computer Science. My research interests are decision-making and planning methods under uncertainties for robotics.

Update 2023/02/22, I have successfully defended my PhD thesis and I am a Ph.D right now! :D

CV in English[CV]

Skills

ROS
C/C++, python
Decision-Making & Planning

PUBLICATIONS

Monte-Carlo Search for an Equilibrium in Dec-POMDPs

Y. You, V. Thomas, F. Colas, and O. Buffet.
In Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2023)[pdf][code]

Robust robot planning for human-robot collaboration

Y. You, V. Thomas, F. Colas, R. Alami, and O. Buffet.
In Proceedings of The International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2023) [pdf][video][code]

Planification Robuste Pour la Collaboration Homme-Robot

Y. You, V. Thomas, F. Colas, R. Alami, and O. Buffet.
In Actes des seizièmes journées francophones planification,décision, apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes (JFPDA-22), 2022.

Solving infinite-horizon Dec-POMDPs using Finite State Controllers within JESP

Y. You, V. Thomas, F. Colas, and O. Buffet.
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-21), held virtually, 2021.[pdf] [code]

Human-Humanoid Interaction and Cooperation: a Review

Lorenzo Vianello, Luigi Penco, Waldez Gomes, Yang You, Salvatore Maria Anzalone, Pauline Maurice, Vincent Thomas & Serena Ivaldi.
Current Robotics Reports, pages 441–454 (2021).

Résolution de Dec-POMDP à horizon infinià l’aide de contrôleurs à états finis dans JESP

Y. You, V. Thomas, F. Colas, and O. Buffet.
In Actes des seizièmes journées francophones planification,décision, apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes (JFPDA-21), 2021.

Demos

Ball-Catching Robot based on planning, learning and CV methods with ROS [Report]

Autonomous driving using online POMDP planning

Multi-agent planning for continuous-state Dec-POMDPs (each robot’s observation range is presented in red)

EXPERIENCE

May.2023 - May.2023: Research Intern, Institute for AI Industry Research, Beijing, Tsinghua University.

Multi-agent decision making for intelligent transportation system.

May.2019 - Sep.2019: Research Intern, Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, Nancy, France.

Working in INRIA/LORIA Larsen team.
Design probabilistic model based on POMDP for human-robot collabration task.

May.2018 - Sep.2018: Research Intern, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Integrated the deep reinforcement learning algorithms (MADDPG and HER) into the robotics simulation in a virtual environment (Mujoco).
Internship report[Report(fr)][Report(en)].

EDUCATION

Oct.2019 - Feb.2023: Phd in Computer Science, INRIA/Lorraine University, Nancy, France

2018 - 2019: MSc in Robotics, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

2016 - 2019: Diplôme d’ingénieur (French engineering degree, equivalent to an MSc degree) in Mechinical Engineering, INSA-ROUEN, Rouen, France

2014 - 2016: Preparatory program of Sciences leading to the Grandes Ecole, INSA-ROUEN, Rouen, France

PERSONAL ACTIVITIES

Breakdance Club at INSA

President, Coach and Founder of the Breakdance club of INSA.
Trailer Video [Video].