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General Information
| Name | Liyao Chang |
| 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
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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
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2026 - present Student Intern
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Publications
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2026 Self-reconfigurable robotic fish swarms: Collective achievement of diverse locomotion and challenging aquatic tasks
- Science Advances 12(2), eadz2458
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2026 The Optimal Condition Number for Leaky ReLU Function
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters (accepted)
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2026 Projected Hessian Direction Estimation by Comparisons under Hölder Smoothness
- 18th International Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
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2026 Sharpness of Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence on Curved Spaces
- Workshop on Geometric Distributional Deep Learning (GDDL), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
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2026 Sharpness of Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence along Diffusions
- Workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics (STODY), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
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2026 The Newsvendor with Distributional Advice
- Second Workshop on Machine Learning and Operations Research (ML×OR), NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
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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)
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2026 Spontaneous Directional Order in One-Bit Extremum-Seeking Swarms
- IROS 2026 Workshop on Miniature Multiterrain and Multimodal Locomotion: from Biology to Robotics (poster)
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2026 Which Module Shapes Can Pivot?
- IROS 2026 Workshop: Challenges and Applications Prospects for Reconfigurable Modular Robots
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2026 Geometric Hoverability Analysis of Generalized Tilted Multirotors
- 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), late breaking results poster
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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
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2026 Measure-Based Razumikhin Conditions for Delay Systems
- IEEE Control Systems Letters, revise and resubmit
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2026 Geometric Classification of Singularity Varieties for (2n+1)R Circular Manipulators
- Under review at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2026 A Phase Transition for Shifted-Composition Transport Bounds on Rényi Divergence
- Under review at IEEE Signal Processing Letters
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2026 Optimal Online Bookmaking on Bipartite Graphs
- Under review at IEEE Control Systems Letters
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2026 One-Sided Budget Uncertainty in General Lotto Games
- Under review at IEEE Control Systems Letters
Academic Service
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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
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Core
- Applied mathematics and analysis
- Control theory and dynamical systems
- Robotics — kinematics, geometry of mechanisms, collective systems
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Additional
- Operations research
- Theoretical computer science
- Game theory
- Information theory
- Statistical physics
- Fluid mechanics
- Computational mechanics
- Microeconomics