Hanlan Yang

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Purdue University. I am advised by Professor Zachary Kingston in the CoMMA Lab.

Prior to joining the CoMMA Lab, I completed my B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. During my time at CMU, I worked in the Search-based Planning Lab from The Robotics Institute, advised by Professor Maxim Likhachev.

My research interests are in developing real-time robotic algorithms leveraging high-performance computing techniques. I am also interested in the decision and planning problems in robotics that require reasoning about physics and dynamics in the environment. I believe that providing solutions to these challenges is essential for robots to perform dexterous tasks in unstructured settings, such as domestic environments.