Youya Xia(夏尤雅)

PhD student in Computer Science

Cornell University

Biography

Youya Xia is a second-year PhD student conducting research about robotics, machine learning and computer vision at Cornell University. She is a current member of Autonomous System Lab advised by Prof. Mark Campbell. Previously, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics in University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. When she was at UMN, she worked with Professor Junaed Sattar about underwater robotics, computer vision and robotic perception. Currently, her research interests lie in machine learning, robotics, computer vision, motion planning and their intersections.

Interests

Reinforcement Learning
Robotics
Robotic Perception
Planning

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2024(expected)
Cornell University
BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science (with high distinction), 2019
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

News

June 2020: Will start to work as a research intern for ByteDance AI Lab at Mountain View CA!
Feb 2020: One paper get accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters!
Aug 2019: Started Ph.D. at Cornell (About to begin an uncharted and exciting journey) !

Projects

Accio

In this report we demonstrate the methodology of multi-robot collaboration, human-robot interaction and discussing the challenges we faced in this project and the insights gained from them, to be applied to future work in this domain.

Visual diver recognition underwater

We present an approach for autonomous underwater robots to visually detect and identify divers. The proposed approach enables an autonomous underwater robot to detect multiple divers in a visual scene and distinguish between them

Recent Publications

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Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception

In this paper, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for underwater image enhancement in real-time. In …

Md Jahidul Islam, Youya Xia, Junaed Sattar

Code Video

Visual Diver Recognition for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration

This paper presents an approach for autonomous underwater robots to visually detect and identify divers. The proposed approach enables …

Youya Xia, Junaed Sattar

Code Slides Video

Miscellaneous

Selected Honors

RAS Travel Grant (ICRA2019)
Global Excellence Scholarship (Fall 2015-Spring 2019)

Teaching Experience

Cornell University: CS 3110 Functional Programming Fall 2019, Spring 2020
University of Minnesota: CSCI2011 Discrete Mathematics in Fall 2018, CSCI2033 Linear Algebra in Spring 2019, MATH2263 Multivariate Calculus in Summer 2017.

Personal Interests

Harry Potter Fan (“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure”) and my favourite character is Luna Lovegood
I like playing tennis and my favourite player is Roger Federer
Besides, I like watching soccer matches. My favourite player is Leo Messi and my favourite soccer team is FC Barcelona
I like traveling in my extra time (I have travelled to many places in Europe, US and China in recent years).