Shaoxiong Yao

I am a fourth-year PhD student majoring in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Prof. Kris Hauser . I have dual undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Michigan and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Research Interests

My goal is to build intelligent and safe robots. I work on robotic tactile perception and manipulation.

Publications

	Structured Bayesian Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Visual-Tactile Model Estimation Jiaheng Han, Shaoxiong Yao and Kris Hauser In submission to ICRA, 2025 Project Webpage
	Safe Leaf Manipulation for Accurate Shape and Pose Estimation of Occluded Fruits Shaoxiong Yao, Sicong Pan, Maren Bennewitz and Kris Hauser In submission to ICRA, 2025 Project Webpage
	Generating and Estimating Linear FEM Plant Simulation Models Shaoxiong Yao and Kris Hauser IROS2024 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics for a Sustainable Future, 2024 Open-source code(WIP)
	Structured Bayesian Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Visual-Tactile Model Estimation Shaoxiong Yao, Yifan Zhu and Kris Hauser Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 Project Webpage
	3D Force and Contact Estimation for a Soft-Bubble Visuotactile Sensor Using FEM Jing-Chen Peng, Shaoxiong Yao and Kris Hauser International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 Open-source code
	Estimating Tactile Models of Heterogeneous Deformable Objects in Real Time Shaoxiong Yao and Kris Hauser International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 Earlier workshop version ICRA2022, 2nd Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects