Rui Yan

ruy020@ucsd.edu

I am a 2nd year Master student at UC San Diego advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang. I earned my B.S. in Engineering at CQU advised by Prof. Fei Liu. I also worked with Prof. Tianshu Yu at CUHKSZ. I am interested in building practical and deployable robotic systems that bridge research and real-world industrial applications.

News

[Jun 2025] Gave a Speech and a Demo Presentation at RSS 1st Workshop on Robot Hardware-Aware Intelligence

[Nov 2024] Started my Master’s at UCSD

[Jun 2024] Graduated from CQU

Publications

Human-Robot Copilot for Data-Efficient Imitation Learning

Rui Yan, Zaitian Gongye, Lars Paulsen, Xuxin Cheng, Xiaolong Wang

In submission to ICRA 2026

GitHub PDF

ACE-F:A Cross Embodiment Foldable Teleoperation System with Integrated Force Feedback

Rui Yan, Jiajian Fu, Shiqi Yang, Lars Paulsen, Xuxin Cheng, Xiaolong Wang

RSS Workshop 2025

Website arXiv GitHub

EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos

Ruihan Yang, Qinxi Yu, Yecheng Wu, Rui Yan, Borui Li, An-Chieh Cheng, Xueyan Zou, Yunhao Fang, Hongxu Yin, Sifei Liu, Song Han, Yao Lu, Xiaolong Wang

ARXIV

Website arXiv GitHub

Selected Projects

Attention-Driven Depth Fusion: Leveraging Focus and Single-Image Priors with Self-Cross Attention

Rui Yan, Zaitian Gongye

We proposes an end-to-end model that fuses a single RGB image and its defocus map using attention mechanisms to estimate depth. Instead of handcrafted fusion, it uses self- and cross-attention for uncertainty-aware refinement.

GitHub PDF Video

Generation of Autonomous Driving Scenes

Rui Yan, Tianshu Yu

We used a generative model with DDIM to create extra training images from small datasets, improving few-shot learning. Fixed size issues with interpolation and reduced noise for better results.

GitHub

Work Experience

[Jul 2023 - Aug 2023] Research Assistant at CUHKSZ, advised by Prof. Tianshu Yu

[Jul 2021 - Aug 2021] Robot Engineer at NinboX Institute

Academic Services

Conference Attendee

CES 2026, Las Vegas

CES 2025, Las Vegas

RSS 2025, Los Angeles, California | Wednesday, June 25th, 2025

Journal Reviewer

Currently NA