Jingyu Song

Jingyu Song | 宋靖宇 - PhD Candidate @ U-M Robotics

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Monterey Bay, CA, 2024.05

I am a third year PhD candidate at the University of Michigan Robotics Department, working with Prof. Katie Skinner at the Field Robotics Group and the Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicle. Before that, I graduated from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022, where I worked with Prof. Maani Ghaffari. I obtained my B.E. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering jointly from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the University of Glasgow in 2020.

I was honored to receive the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in 2025 and be named a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) Finalist in 2024. I was a research intern at NVIDIA in 2024, a research intern at Bosch Corporate Research in 2020, and an undergraduate research intern at Intel in 2018.

I am interested in the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and deep learning, with a focus on multi-modal perception, state estimation and mapping for 3D scene understanding. I am also interested in the application of these technologies in autonomous driving and field robotics.

news

Mar 24, 2025 I will return to NVIDIA and join the Autonomous Vehicles Applied Research Group led by Dr. Jose M. Alvarez as a research intern in summer 2025! 🚗🤖
Mar 10, 2025 I was selected to receive the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! 🎉
Mar 05, 2025 Check our latest work OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework!
Feb 28, 2025 I gave a keynote presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) at WACV 2025 on Scalable Underwater Perception: Building the Foundations for Embodied Marine Autonomy. Check the recording here!
Oct 28, 2024 Our paper MemFusionMap is accepted at WACV 2025! 🎉
Oct 14, 2024 We present our work 🐢 TURTLMap at IROS 2024! Check our LinkedIn Post!

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework
    Jingyu Song*, Haoyu Ma*, Onur Bagoren, Advaith V Sethuraman, Yiting Zhang, and Katherine A Skinner
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.01074, 2025
  2. WACV
    MemFusionMap: Working Memory Fusion for Online Vectorized HD Map Construction
    Jingyu Song, Xudong Chen, Liupei Lu, Jie Li, and Katherine A Skinner
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
  3. IROS
    TURTLMap: Real-time Localization and Dense Mapping of Low-texture Underwater Environments with a Low-cost Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
    Jingyu Song*, Onur Bagoren*, Razan Andigani, Advaith Venkatramanan Sethuraman, and Katherine A. Skinner
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
  4. CVPR
    CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation
    Lingjun Zhao*Jingyu Song*, and Katherine A Skinner
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  5. ICRA
    LiRaFusion: Deep Adaptive LiDAR-Radar Fusion for 3D Object Detection
    Jingyu Song, Lingjun Zhao, and Katherine A Skinner
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024