Yucheng (Jeremy) Lin

I am an M.S. student in Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where I also received my B.S. in Computer Engineering (2026).

I work on robots that perceive, plan, and act on their own, with a focus on getting algorithms to run on real hardware:

• Autonomous robots — At the Existential Robotics Laboratory with Prof. Nikolay Atanasov, I work across the autonomy stack: building a quadrotor with onboard computing and model predictive control, developing mapping (occupancy grids and 3D point maps from depth cameras) and motion planning.
• Swarm robotics — At the Active & Living Matter Lab with Prof. Tzer-Han Tan, I build robot swarms inspired by the self-organization of starfish embryos, including the robots' first remote-control hardware and the first hardware deployment of simulation-trained RL policies.

My broader interests span model predictive control, motion planning, and sim-to-real transfer: making robots that are fast, safe, and reliable outside of simulation.

Feel free to reach out at yul235@ucsd.edu.