Tianchen Ji (季天辰)

I’m a fifth year PhD student in HCA Lab in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Katie Driggs-Campbell. Before my PhD journey, I was an undergraduate at Xi’an Jiaotong University, where I majored in Electrical Engineering.

My current research focuses on the intersection of robotics and machine learning. My lifelong goal is to bring research ideas in papers to technology in daily life.

Research interests:

Machine Perception
Sensor Fusion
Machine Learning
Representation Learning
Motion Tracking

News

08/2023: Our paper “A Data-Efficient Visual-Audio Representation with Intuitive Fine-tuning for Voice-Controlled Robots” has been accrpted at CoRL 2023!
06/2023: Our paper “An Attentional Recurrent Neural Network for Occlusion-Aware Proactive Anomaly Detection in Field Robot Navigation” has been accepted at IROS 2023!
01/2023: Our paper “Structural Attention-based Recurrent Variational Autoencoder for Highway Vehicle Anomaly Detection” has been accepted at AAMAS 2023!
07/2022: Our paper “Robust Output Feedback MPC with Reduced Conservatism under Ellipsoidal Uncertainty” has been accepted at CDC 2022!
06/2022: Our paper “Combining Model-Based Controllers and Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Traffic Simulation” has been accepted at ITSC 2022!
05/2022: Our paper “Examining Audio Communication Mechanisms for Supervising Fleets of Agricultural Robots” has been accepted at RO-MAN 2022!
04/2022: Our paper “Traversing Supervisor Problem: An Approximately Optimal Approach to Multi-Robot Assistance” has been accepted at RSS 2022! See you in New York in June!
01/2022: Our paper “Proactive Anomaly Detection for Robot Navigation with Multi-Sensor Fusion” has been accepted by RA-L! Mini-abstract: Sensor fusion matters!
02/2021: I am honored to serve on the organizing committee at CSLSC 2021!
10/2020: Our paper “Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection for Unstructured and Uncertain Environments” has been accepted at CoRL 2020! Mini-abstract: Sense to perceive!
05/2020: Our paper “Online Monitoring for Safe Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions” has been accepted at ITSC 2020! Mini-abstract: Drive safe!
08/2019: Start my PhD journey in HCA Lab!