Tianrun Hu

About Me

I am a Research Engineer at the Smart System Institute (SSI), National University of Singapore, supervised by Prof. David Hsu. My research interests include robotics learning, manipulation, perception, planning, and Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Previously, I was an undergraduate in Computer Engineering at the of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University under the guidance of Prof. Lam Siew Kei.

Research Interests

My research spans several interconnected areas of robotics and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on enabling robots to learn and interact naturally in human environments:

• Low level tasks learning from human demonstration
  • Behavior cloning and imitation learning
• Human-Robot Interaction
  • Intuitive teleoperation interfaces
  • Natural interaction paradigms for robot teaching
• Task and Motion Planning
  • Demonstration-aware planning algorithms
  • Integration of learned behaviors with classical planning
  • Hierarchical task planning
• Neural-Symbolic Representations
  • Scene understanding and state representation learning
  • Bridging neural perception with symbolic reasoning
  • Learning structured representations from demonstration data

My long-term research vision centers on developing demonstration-aware task and motion planning systems. This involves creating robots that can effectively learn from human demonstrations while building neural-symbolic representations that bridge the gap between perception and planning. Currently, I'm exploring human-robot interaction through teleoperation systems, investigating how to construct and leverage neural-symbolic scene and state representations from human demonstrations for more effective planning and execution.