Heng Yang

Heng Yang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he directs the Computational Robotics Group. He is also a part-time research scientist at NVIDIA Corporation. His research focuses on developing structured optimization and learning algorithms for robotics and autonomous systems, with work spanning certifiable outlier-robust perception, 3D scene understanding, and robot manipulation. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from MIT under the supervision of Luca Carlone and is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award.