Hi, I am Yibin!

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Northwestern University, where I am a member of the Xenobot Lab advised by Prof. Sam Kriegman.

Previously, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, as well as my Master’s degree in Computer Science, from NYU Courant. I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lerrel Pinto and Prof. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.

My research focuses on robot learning, with experience in real-world robotic manipulation, dataset creation, data processing, and multimodal manipulation experiments across both simulated and physical environments. I am currently working on combining evolutionary algorithms with machine learning to co-optimize robot morphologies and control policies. More broadly, I study how representations of robot design and behavior spaces can improve generalization, adaptation, and co-optimization in embodied systems. I am also interested in vision-language-action models and world models for robotic task and action planning.