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Yuchen Liu

3rd PhD at Purdue University

🔍 Looking for Summer 2026 Internship

About Me

Welcome to my academic portfolio! I am a third-year PhD student at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Ahmed H. Qureshi at the CoRAL Lab. My research lies at the intersection of robotics, physics-informed learning, and motion planning, with a focus on enabling intelligent agents to navigate and interact with complex environments efficiently and robustly. Broadly, my work develops neural field representations, physics-informed learning frameworks, and simulation platforms for scalable robot intelligence.

Prior to Purdue, I completed my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at New York University (2019-2023), where I worked with Prof. Chen Feng at the AI4CE Lab on robotics simulation.

When I'm not in the lab, you can find me reading detective novels, playing strategic video games, or spending time with my cats who are always supporting my research!

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Publications

* denotes joint first authors

Publication 5

Physics-informed Neural Motion Planning via Domain Decomposition in Large Environments

Yuchen Liu, Alexiy Buynitsky, Ruiqi Ni, and Ahmed H. Qureshi

IROS 2025

Publication 4

Self-supervised Modular Neural Learning for Robot Navigation in Unknown, Large Indoor Environments

Wei Han Chen*, Yuchen Liu*, Alexiy Buynitsky, and Ahmed H. Qureshi

IROS 2025

Publication 3

Physics-informed Neural Mapping and Motion Planning in Unknown Environments

Yuchen Liu*, Ruiqi Ni*, Ahmed H. Qureshi

TRO 2025

Publication 1

Mobile 3d printing robot simulation with viscoelastic fluids

Uljad Berdica*, Yuewei Fu*, Yuchen Liu*, Emmanouil Angelidis*, Chen Feng

IROS 2021

My Research Assistants

Qiuqiu

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Naitang

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