• Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Yiwei Lyu

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University – 2025
  • B.S., Electronic Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen – 2019

Research Interests

    • Robotics
    • Safe control and verification
    • Behavior planning
    • Multi-agent systems
    • Human-robot interaction

Awards & Honors

  • MIT EECS Rising Star - 2024
  • ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneer - 2024
  • AAMAS Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up - 2023
  • ICRA Trustworthy Autonomous System Workshop Best Paper Award - 2023
  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship - 2023

Selected Publications

  • Yang, Y., Lyu, Y., Zhang, Y., Gao, I., Luo, W. "Integrating Online Learning and Connectivity Maintenance for Communication-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination." 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2024.
  • Lyu, Y., Luo, W., Dolan, J.M. "Risk-aware safe control for decentralized multi-agent systems via dynamic responsibility allocation." 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2023.
  • Lyu, Y., Dolan, J.M., and Luo, W. "Decentralized safe navigation for multi-agent systems via risk-aware weighted buffered voronoi cells." Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. 2023.
  • Lyu, Y., Luo, W., Dolan, J.M. "Probabilistic safety-assured adaptive merging control for autonomous vehicles." 2021 IEEE International conference on robotics and automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2021.