Yunfan REN πŸ€–
Yunfan REN (Kevin)

Ph.D. Candidate

About Me

My name is Yunfan RENπŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ“ (δ»»δΊ‘εΈ†), and I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Robotics (expected graduation: June 2025) at the University of Hong Kong in the MaRS Lab.

I have published 20 papers during my Ph.D. in leading journals and conferences, including Science Robotics, T-RO (5 papers), IJRR, RA-L, ICRA (Outstanding Navigation Paper Finalist), and IROS (Best Overall and Best Student Paper Finalist). Of these, I am the first or co-first author on 11 papers, including 1 in Science Robotics , 2 in T-RO, two paper awards in ICRA and IROS and others.

For a full list of my publications, visit my Google ScholarπŸ“ˆ.

Beyond academia, I actively contribute to open-source projects. My research code on GitHub has accumulated over 3.6k stars ⭐. Notable repositories include SUPER (β˜…313), ROG-Map (β˜…363), FAST-LIVO2 (β˜…1.9k), and LiDAR_IMU_Init (β˜…949).

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Interests
  • Autonomous Aerial Robots
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Reinforcement Learning
Education
  • PhD Robotics

    University of Hong Kong

  • B.E. Automation

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Featured Publications
Recent News

SUPER is published in Science Robotics!

Our new paper on autonomous aerial robots published in Science Robotics and been selected as the visual feature on Science website.

Recent Publications
(2025). Safety-assured High-speed Navigation for MAVs. Science Robotics.
(2024). Real-time Bandwidth-efficient Occupancy Grid Map Synchronization for Multi-Robot Systems. In IROS 2024.
(2024). Swarm-LIO2: Decentralized Efficient LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Aerial Swarm Systems. T-RO.
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