Postdoctoral Associate in robot perception at The George Washington University. Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (GWU, 2026) from the Flight Dynamics and Control Lab.
- 🔭 Now: online open-vocabulary 3D instance mapping with RGB-D SLAM, so robots can build object-level maps and find objects from natural-language queries (paper under review)
- 🚁 Ph.D.: equivariant, modular, and multi-agent reinforcement learning for quadrotor UAVs, with sim-to-real transfer to custom flight hardware
- 🎥 Real-world flight video (IEEE TCST 2026) · isaac-hrc demo
- 📫 Google Scholar · LinkedIn · ben.beomyeol.yu@gmail.com
