Current Team

Senior Members

Chen Feng

Principle Investigator (PI) of the AI4CE group. One of Chen’s most ambitious academic dream is to enable robots like Wall-E and Baymax which could help humanity.

Chen Feng

Associate Professor at NYU

Jing Zhang

Jing Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow. She received her B.E. in Wuhan University. Her research interest lies in 3D computer vision and the application of artificial intelligence in archaeology.

Jing Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xuchu Xu

Xuchu is a PhD student. His motto is “Stay hungry, Stay foolish” and wants to be a man from the future.

Xuchu Xu

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering

Hanwen Zhao

Hanwen is a PhD student. He received his B.S. from University of Colorado Boulder and M.S. from Columbia University. His research interests are Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Hanwen Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering

Chao Chen

Chao is a PHD student. He is interested in computer vision and robotics. His interest shaped him the sense of engineering to adapt rapidly to the study of computer science.

Chao Chen

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Anbang Yang

Anbang Yang is a PhD candidate in the AI4CE lab at New York University, focusing on developing visual navigation systems to assist visually impaired individuals. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from Dalian University of Technology. Anbang has experience as a software engineer, developing navigation systems and constructing 3D maps for indoor navigation. His research interests include visual localization, 3D reconstruction, and spatial reasoning.

Anbang Yang

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering

Ruixuan Zhang

Ruixuan is a Ph.D. student in Transportation at the Tandon School of Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Kaan Ozbay. His research focuses on machine learning and intelligent transportation systems, aiming to provide multi-modal (vision and language) solutions for safety and decision-making.

Ruixuan Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate in Transportation Engineering

Bilal Sher

Bilal has an MS in Civil Engineering from NYU, and a BSc. from the University of Calgary. He is passionate about using technologies such as computer vision and deep learning to solve civil engineering problems.

Bilal Sher

Founder and CEO of Building Diagnostic Robotics, Inc.

Diwei Sheng

Diwei is an Ph.D. student in computer science. His research interests are artificial intelligence and computer vision. He is doing research on visual place recognition.

Diwei Sheng

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Irving Fang

Irving is a Ph.D. student from the CSE department. He did his undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Data Science and Math. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, vision, and machine learning.

Irving Fang

Ph.D. Candidate in CSE

Juexiao Zhang

Juexiao Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the Courant Institute majoring in Computer science. He obtained his BS in EE from Tsinghua University. He is interested in machine learning, especially building AI systems that can efficiently learn representations from multimodal signals.

Juexiao Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Sihang Li

Sihang Li is a Ph.D student in M.E in Tandon School of Engineering. He received his B.E. in Tongji University. His research interests are Robot Perception, autonomous driving and Machine Learning.

Sihang Li

Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering

Xinhao Liu

Xinhao is a Ph.D student in Computer Science. He received his B.Sc. degree from NYU and NYU Shanghai. His research interest is 3D perception and human-like navigation.

Xinhao Liu

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Anuj Doshi

My name is Anuj Doshi. I am passionate about working on computer vision problems. My interests are in microscopic object detection, multi-modal AI, and collaborative robotics. I earned my master’s in robotics and mechatronics from NYU and currently lead AI projects at Nanotronics Imaging.

Anuj Doshi

Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering

Yuzhong Chen

Yuzhong Chen is a Ph.D student in Computer Science in Tandon School of Engineering. He received his B.Eng. from CUHK(SZ) and M.S. from NYU. He is interested in robot perception and mobile manipulation.

Yuzhong Chen

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Zhe Wang

Visiting Ph.D. Student working on Co-Perception.

Zhe Wang

Visiting Ph.D. Student

Junior Members

Antonio Carlone

I received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the TU Hamburg, Germany and am currently pursuing a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the TU Berlin, Germany. My Master’s thesis in the field of Computing in Civil Engineering is a cooperation between TU Berlin and NYU.

Antonio Carlone

Visiting Research Student

Siqi (Kevin) Tan

Siqi is an MSCS student at NYU with research interests in computer vision and robotics, currently focusing on visual localization, 3D reconstruction, and robotic perception.

Siqi (Kevin) Tan

M.S. in Computer Science

Yipeng Wang

Research interests lie in robot learning in manipulation & vision, and control theories.

Yipeng Wang

B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

James Jin

James majors in computer science and wishes to turn his research interests in computer vision into a PhD career. He believes in the value of serving the academics and enriching its open exchange of knowledge.

James Jin

B.S. in Computer Science

Beichen Wang

Beichen Wang obtained a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from SJTU and is currently pursuing an MSCS at NYU Courant. Beichen has worked on projects related to intelligent manufacturing, NLP, and robotics, and has a strong interest in analysis within theoretical mathematics. He aspires to combine his interdisciplinary background to become a full-stack robotic scientist.

Beichen Wang

M.S. in Computer Science

Celestino Martinez

I am currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Robotics. My interests include machine learning, deep learning, and robotics.

Celestino Martinez

B.S. in Computer Engineering

John Abanes

I am a visiting undergraduate from NYU Abu Dhabi. My interests include robot manipulation and navigation. I aspire to be proficient in the entire design process, from mechanical design to implementing control systems and machine learning. At AI4CE, I designed, wired, and programmed mobile data collection systems for the Curb2Door project.

John Abanes

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at NYUAD

Shunyu Yao

I am Shunyu Yao, a master’s student in Computer Science with research interests in Point Cloud Registration and Path Planning. An AI researcher with an exceptional background in software engineering.

Shunyu Yao

M.S. in Computer Science

Shuwen Dong

Shuwen Dong is a graduate student in NYU CE. He’s interested in generative artificial intelligence.

Shuwen Dong

M.S. in Computer Engineering

Jonah Kamat

Jonah is a computer engineering graduate and researcher in the AI4CE lab. His interests lie in computer vision, natural language processing, and 3D reconstruction.

Jonah Kamat

B.S. Computer Engineering

Wenkai Sun

Wenkai is MSCS student at Courant. His research interest is machine learning.

Wenkai Sun

M.S. in Computer Science

Zehong Wang

M.S. student, New York University

Zehong Wang

M.S. in Computer Science

Mohit Mehta

Mohit is an MS student in Computer Science at NYU Tandon. His research interests are 3D computer vision, Autonomous Vehicles, NeRF, and Reinforcement Learning

Mohit Mehta

M.S. in Computer Science

Idan Lau

I am currently pursuing a BS in Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics at NYU Tandon School Of Engineering. My interests include Backend Programming, Data Science/Machine Learning and Computer Networking

Idan Lau

B.S. in Computer Science

Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science in 2024 from New York University, following his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) also in Computer Science (2023). While pursuing his studies, he actively contributed to research at Building Diagnostic Robotics, a New York University robotics startup. There, he focused on integrating deep learning with robotics to develop robust autonomous diagnostics systems. His research interests lie in deep learning, robotics, and signal processing.

Kevin Lee

M.S. in Computer Science

Shubham Gupta

I am a Master’s in Computer Engineering student at NYU Tandon. I work with Dr. Chen Feng on Neural Radiance Fields and efficient VPR for mobile computing. I also work with Dr. Laure Zanna at M2LInES as a research assistant. I lead the Computer Vision team at NYU Robomasters.

Shubham Gupta

M.S. in Computer Engineering

Wei-Heng Lin

I graduated from NYU Tandon with M.S. in Computer Science in 2024 and am currently working at BDR to develop ML solutions for building anomaly detection. My interest lies in solving real-life problems using Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning.

Wei-Heng Lin

M.S. in Computer Science

Yiping (Dennis) Du

I’m an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical Engineering. I serve as the lab manager at AI4CE and am the student leader of the NYU Self-Drive VIP (Vertically Integrated Projects).

Yiping (Dennis) Du

B.S. Electrical Engineering