cv

General Information

Name Liyao Chang
Email liyaoc@andrew.cmu.edu  ·  changly@stu.pku.edu.cn
Office Newell-Simon Hall A403, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Languages Chinese (native), English

Education

  • 2022 - 2027 (expected)
    B.E. in Robotics Engineering
    Peking University, Beijing, China
    • Entered as a student of Economics and later transferred to Robotics Engineering.

Experience

  • 2026 - present
    Student Intern
    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Publications

  • 2026
    Self-reconfigurable robotic fish swarms: Collective achievement of diverse locomotion and challenging aquatic tasks
    • Science Advances 12(2), eadz2458
  • 2026
    The Optimal Condition Number for Leaky ReLU Function
    • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (accepted)
  • 2026
    Projected Hessian Direction Estimation by Comparisons under Hölder Smoothness
    • 18th International Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
  • 2026
    Sharpness of Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence on Curved Spaces
    • Workshop on Geometric Distributional Deep Learning (GDDL), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
  • 2026
    Sharpness of Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence along Diffusions
    • Workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics (STODY), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
  • 2026
    The Newsvendor with Distributional Advice
    • Second Workshop on Machine Learning and Operations Research (ML×OR), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
  • 2026
    A mean-field game on the diffusive point-vortex system and short-time solutions of the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations
    • 79th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (accepted abstract)
  • 2026
    Spontaneous Directional Order in One-Bit Extremum-Seeking Swarms
    • IROS 2026 Workshop on Miniature Multiterrain and Multimodal Locomotion: from Biology to Robotics (poster)
  • 2026
    Which Module Shapes Can Pivot?
    • IROS 2026 Workshop: Challenges and Applications Prospects for Reconfigurable Modular Robots
  • 2026
    Geometric Hoverability Analysis of Generalized Tilted Multirotors
    • 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), late breaking results poster
  • 2026
    A Geometric Method of Generalized Hoverability and Robustness Analysis for Marine Inspection UAVs
    • ICRA 2026 Workshop on Aerial Inspection for Marine Infrastructures (poster)

Preprints and Manuscripts Under Review

  • 2026
    Measure-Based Razumikhin Conditions for Delay Systems
    • IEEE Control Systems Letters, revise and resubmit
  • 2026
    Geometric Classification of Singularity Varieties for (2n+1)R Circular Manipulators
    • Under review at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • 2026
    A Phase Transition for Shifted-Composition Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence
    • Under review at IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • 2026
    Optimal Online Bookmaking on Bipartite Graphs
    • Under review at IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • 2026
    One-Sided Budget Uncertainty in General Lotto Games
    • Under review at IEEE Control Systems Letters

Academic Service

  • 2026
    Reviewer
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026)
    • IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)
    • NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Dynamics at the Frontiers of Optimization, Sampling, and Games (DynaFront)
    • NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Geometric Distributional Deep Learning (GDDL)

Research Interests

  • Core
    • Applied mathematics and analysis
    • Control theory and dynamical systems
    • Robotics — kinematics, geometry of mechanisms, collective systems
  • Additional
    • Operations research
    • Theoretical computer science
    • Game theory
    • Information theory
    • Statistical physics
    • Fluid mechanics
    • Computational mechanics
    • Microeconomics