Jianyu Chen

Jianyu Chen is an assistant professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University and a principal investigator at the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute. He directs the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory (ISR Lab), where he conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on reinforcement learning, control, and autonomous driving. He holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka. He has published more than 40 papers in robotics and AI venues and was named to the 2021 Forbes China 30 Under 30 Science list.