Fan  Shi    石  凡

I am an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, awarded by Presidential Young Professorship.

I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH AI Center working with Prof. Stelian Coros and Prof. Marco Hutter. I obtained the PhD degree at JSK Lab, the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Masayuki Inaba and Prof. Kei Okada from 2016 to 2021. In 2020, I was visiting RSL Lab, ETH Zurich supervised by Prof. Macro Hutter.

I did my Bachelor in Peking University advised by Prof. Huijing Zhao. I was visiting in Microsoft Research Asia (by Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi) and Takanishi Lab (by Prof. Atsuo Takanishi) during my undergraduate.

In spare time, I was fortunate to work with Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman as a Contributor on IEEE Spectrum Robotics, and my great friend Yifan Hou on 机器人学家. My lifelong target is to build the good stuff, and help the good happen.

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News: 2024.11 - Honoured to be a keynote speaker at Automous Robotic Technology Seminar, see you in Shenzhen.

News: 2024.11 - Honoured to give an invited talk at Technical University of Munich Garching on robustness assessment.

News: 2024.10 - Check our new paper using differentiable simulator to learn end-to-end perceptive loco-navigation policy!

News: 2024.06 - Honoured to give an invited talk at Stanford University on AI safety.

News: 2024.06 - Our RSS 2024 paper is featured in IEEE Spectrum!

News: 2024.06 - Honoured to give an invited talk at Google DeepMind Robotics team on AI safety.

News: 2024.05 - One paper is accepted in RSS 2024, see you in Delft!

News: 2024.04 - Honoured and humbled that I will join National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor this summer. Thanks very much for all your support!

News: 2024.03 - Honoured to give an invited talk in Peking Univ. and Tsinghua Univ., long time no see in Beijing!

News: 2024.01 - HumanMimic is accepted to ICRA 2024. Congratualtions, Annan!

News: 2023.12 - Honored that our proposal was selected as the best draft finalist in AI Safety Prize!

News: 2023.06 - Honored to be an invited speaker in IROS 2023 workshop of Reactive and Predictive Humanoid Whole-body Control. Thanks for the organizer and see you in IROS!

News: 2023.05 - I am going to ICRA 2023, see you in London!

News: 2022.11 - I move to ETH Zürich as apostdoctoral fellow on quadrupedal robots. Welcome to visit me when you are in Zürich!

News: 2022.07 - Papers are accepted in IROS 2022 and ISRR 2022. We appreciate all the valuable comments from the asynchronous reviewers.

News: 2022.03 - I am humbled and thrilled that my PhD thesis gets the best dissertation award in my department.

News: 2021.09 - I resigned as the Contributor for IEEE Spectrum Robotics. It's a great journey for me towards "help the good happen", thank you Evan and Erico for having me since 2018!

News: 2021.09 - I defended my PhD!!! I'm very happy :))) but exhausted. :(

News: 2021.03 - Our work on aerial interception is accepted Field Robotics!

News: 2021.02 - Our work on ANYmal dexterity is accepted in ICRA 2021!

News: 2020.11 - New ANYmal video during my exchange in RSL Lab, ETH comes out! We achieve the dexterous manipulation on the real quadrupedal robot, and submit it to ICRA 2021.

News: 2020.09 -Finish the visit in RSL Lab, ETH. Great journey with amazingly robust ANYmal robot. Thank you all the friends in Zurich, you guys are amazing!

News: 2020.06 -Honored to receive IEEE RAS-JJC Young Award in ICRA 2020. Thank you RAS Japan!

News: 2020.03 -Excited to start my visit in RSL Lab, ETH. Looking forwards to meeting friends in Zurich!

News: 2020.02 -We got 3rd prize on MBZIRC Challenge 2020 Challenge 1!

News: 2019.12 -Paper on aerial regrasping is accepted by ICRA 2020. See you in Paris!

News: 2019.11 -IEEE Spectrum Video Friday featured our IROS work on fast transformation and aerial tennis! Thank you Evan and Erico!

News: 2019.11 -Thrilled to be awarded with a grant from NCCR for visiting RSL Lab, ETH. Many thanks to NCCR and Prof. Hutter! Looking forwards to making friends and playing with ANYmal robot next year!

Computationally investigate the vulnerabilities in black-box learning-based controllers towards AI safety, better evaluation method, and more robust performance.

First time to achieve several challenging humanoid skills without joints motion reference.

First time to achieve dynamic hybrid locomotion on aerial humanoid robots.

First time to achieve dynamic dexterous manipulation on a real quadrupedal robot.

Novel and robust approach for MBZRIC Challenge Task1 as the 3rd prize team.

First time to achieve aerial regrasping with contact-aware planning framework in our best knowledge.

Improving the motion primitive with the consideration of infeasible configuration based on previous research, and table tennis task of single-racket case is achieved.

Using distributed IMU system to estimate external wrench and achieving contact-aided navigation with the help of transformable ability.

First time to consider regrasp in aerial robot and achieve dynamic active regrasp by throw-and-recatch.

Online dynamic motion of aerial transformable robot and demonstrating with agile table tennis task of double-racket case.

Dexterous pushing skill by DRAGON robot.

Adaptive controller in aerial transformable robot.

Ceiling effect of aeiral transformable robot.

DRAGON robot traverses through a narrow gap with sampling-based planner.

Hardware design and control of DRAGON robot..

8-links aerial transformable robot grasps large heavy object with optimized transformation.

Hardware and controller of two-dimensional transformable aerial robot HYDRUS and its application on whole-body grasping.

Approach in MBZIRC 2017 in detecting and tracking a moving target.

Object transportation with 6-links aerial transformable robot.

Credits to the website design from Guanya Shi and Jon Barron.