Hello! 🙌

I’m Yunfan Ren 👨‍🎓, a postdoctoral fellow in the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich, working under the guidance of Prof. Davide Scaramuzza. I earned my Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Hong Kong, where I conducted research in the MaRS Lab with Prof. Fu Zhang. My work centers on Autonomous Aerial Robots, Field Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, and Reinforcement Learning.

I have published over 20 papers during my Ph.D. in leading journals and conferences, including:

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• Nature Communications
• T-RO (5 papers) 📘
• IJRR 📗
• T-Mech 📔
• RA-L 📙
• ICRA (Outstanding Navigation Paper - Finalist) 🏆
• IROS (Best Overall and Best Student Paper - Finalist)🏆

Of these, I am the first or co-first author on 12 papers, including 1 in , 2 in T-RO, 1 in T-Mech, and two paper awards at ICRA and IROS.

Beyond academia, I actively contribute to open-source projects. My research code on GitHub has accumulated over 4k stars ⭐. Notable repositories include:

• SUPER (★640)
• ROG-Map (★461)
• FAST-LIVO2 (★2.8k)
• LiDAR_IMU_Init (★1.1k)

For a full list of my publications, visit my Google Scholar 📈.