{"id":369,"date":"2024-09-06T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/?page_id=369"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:06:37","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[2026\/01] I gave a talk, &#8220;<strong>Beyond Explore-Exploit: Pragmatic Curiosity with Self-Consistent Learning and No-Regret Optimization<\/strong>,&#8221; at the MIT LIDS Student Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2026\/01] Our paper &#8220;<strong>SEED-SET: Scalable Evolving Experimental Design for System-level Ethical Testing<\/strong>&#8221; been accepted by ICLR 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2025\/08] Our paper &#8220;<strong>Cost-aware Discovery of Contextual Failures using Bayesian Active Learning<\/strong>&#8221; has been accepted by CoRL 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2025\/07] Our paper &#8220;<strong>Avoiding Chatters with Hesitation in Human-Robot Co-Learning<\/strong>&#8221; has been accepted by Unmanned Systems (US).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2025\/03] I gave a talk, &#8220;<strong>From Objectives to Preferences: Generalized Bayesian Optimization with Active Inference<\/strong>,&#8221; at the MIT LIDS Postdoc Nexus Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2025\/01] We are organizing a workshop on &#8220;<strong>Optimizing Across Scales:\u00a0Multi-Fidelity, Multi-Modality, and Multi-Objective Approaches for Complex Systems<\/strong>&#8221; in ACC 2025. See you in Denver!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/12] I gave a talk, &#8220;<strong>Bayesian Approach to Breaking Things: Efficiently Predicting Diverse Failure Modes via Sampling<\/strong>,&#8221; at the AFOSR Autonomy Test Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/09] Our paper &#8220;<strong>Dynamic Event-triggered Integrated Task and Motion Planning for Process-aware Source Seeking<\/strong>&#8221; has been accepted by Autonomous Robots (AURO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/08] I began my postdoctoral work with <strong>Prof. Chuchu Fan<\/strong> in the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab at MIT (REALM).<a href=\"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/postdoc-started-at-mit\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/07] Our paper \u201c<strong>Trust-Preserved Human-Robot Shared Autonomy enabled by Bayesian Relational Event Modeling<\/strong>\u201d has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), and will be presented at ICRA 2025. See you in Atlanta!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/05] I defended my PhD thesis, \u201c<strong>Bayesian Learning: Paving the Way to Trustworthy Robots<\/strong>\u201d. Many thanks to my thesis committee: Dr. Fumin Zhang (Advisor), Dr. Enlu Zhou, Dr. Matthieu Bloch, Dr. Seth Hutchinson, and Dr. Diyi Yang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/05] I gave a talk for the Ames-Burdick Group at Caltech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/04] I gave a talk for the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab at MIT (REALM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2024\/02] Our paper \u201c<strong>A Distributed Bayesian Data Fusion Algorithm with Uniform Consistency<\/strong>\u201d has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[2026\/01] I gave a talk, &#8220;Beyond Explore-Exploit: Pragmatic Curiosity with Self-Consistent Learning and No-Regret Optimization,&#8221; at the MIT LIDS Student Conference. [2026\/01] Our paper &#8220;SEED-SET: Scalable Evolving Experimental Design for System-level Ethical Testing&#8221; been accepted by ICLR 2026. [2025\/08] Our paper &#8220;Cost-aware Discovery of Contextual Failures using Bayesian Active Learning&#8221; has been accepted by CoRL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yingkeli.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}