Yue Yang

PhD Student, Department of Computer Science

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hey there! I'm a Computer Science PhD student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), lucky to be co-advised by Prof. Daniel J. Szafir and Prof. Gedas Bertasius. Before coming to UNC, I earned my Master's degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech), where I got to work with Prof. Matthew Gombolay and had the chance to collaborate with Prof. Greg Turk. I've been super fortunate to learn from and work with these amazing folks. Excited for what comes next on this journey!

I have a pet bird named Dora and enjoy birdwatching in my free time - you can see my sightings here.

I believe in Slow Science.

Selected Publications

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BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long-Horizon Task

Yue Yang, Linfeng Zhao, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir

journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025

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ARCADE: Scalable Demonstration Collection and Generation via Augmented Reality for Imitation Learning

Yue Yang, Bryce Ikeda, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir

conference Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024

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Enhancing Safety in Learning from Demonstration Algorithms via Control Barrier Function Shielding

Yue Yang, Letian Chen, Zulfiqar Zaidi, Sanne van Waveren, Arjun Krishna, Matthew Gombolay

conference Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2024

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Latest News

January 12, 2026

Internship at MERL

I started my internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) at Boston :0

September 3, 2025

Paper accepted at T-FR

Our paper "Competency-Aware Collaborative Robotic Surface Exploration: A Study at the Mars Desert Research Station" accepted at IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR).

June 15, 2025

Paper accepted at IROS 2025

Our paper "Rebot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis" has been accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025.

June 10, 2025

Paper accepted at RA-L

Our paper "BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long-Horizon Task" has been accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

January 15, 2025

Paper accepted at HRI 2025

Our paper "Supporting Long-Horizon Tasks in Human-Robot Collaboration by Aligning Intentions via Augmented Reality" accepted at ACM/IEEE HRI 2025.