Joyce Yang

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👋 Hi, I’m Joyce. I’m a third-year Computer Science undergrad @ Cornell University.

I’m working at EmPRISE Lab under Prof. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, focusing on human-robot interaction and multi-agent robotic systems for bed-to-wheelchair human transfers.

Previously, I worked on reinforcement learning for in-hand manipulation of bioinspired robots through the Science Internship Program at UC Santa Cruz, under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Wehner. I also interned at Stanford University’s Robinson Lab, where I studied gene expression in equine RNA-seq data to better understand cartilage degradation.

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news

May 27, 2025 I started my summer internship at SIA Lab under Prof. Somil Bansal!
Dec 02, 2024 Our paper CART-MPC: Coordinating Assistive Devices for Robot-Assisted Transferring with Multi-Agent Model Predictive Control was accepted to HRI 2025! Check out the project website here
Aug 14, 2024 I was featured on Cornell Chronicle’s article Summer program gives undergraduates a taste of research life and Cornell Bowers CIS Spotlight

selected publications

  1. HRI 2025
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    CART-MPC: Coordinating Assistive Devices for Robot-Assisted Transferring with Multi-Agent Model Predictive Control
    Ruolin Ye, Shuaixing Chen, Yunting Yan, Joyce Yang, Christina Ge, Jose Barreiros, Kate Tsui, Tom Silver, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
    In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025