Robotics researcher yswhynot joins NYU as Assistant Professor
Haoyu_Xiong_ · x · 2026-08-02
AI researcher yswhynot announced they will be joining New York University (NYU) as an Assistant Professor. Before officially starting, they will spend a year at embodied AI company Physical Intelligence. Previously, they worked on control-hardware co-design at UCSD and focused on applying robot learning to hardware design during their postdoc.
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