Resume · Hu Tianrun

Hu Tianrun

tianrunhu@gmail.com tianrun.hu@u.nus.edu +65 9132 6083 GitHub LinkedIn

Education

Aug 2026 – Present

National University of Singapore

Ph.D. in Computer Science

School of Computing
Jul 2020 – Jul 2024

Nanyang Technological University

B.Eng. in Computer Engineering · Distinction Honours

College of Computing and Data Science

Research & Professional Experience

Jul 2026 – Present

Robot Navigation for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Stanford University

Collaborative research with Dr. Yiqing Xu under Prof. Jiajun Wu.
Aug 2024 – Jul 2026

Research Engineer, Full time

Adaptive Computing Lab, Smart Systems Institute (SSI), NUS

Research on visibility-aware mobile grasping, open-world planning, visual grounding and object-centric policies, published at RSS, NeurIPS, CoRL and ICRA, plus shared mobile-manipulation infrastructure.
Sep 2023 – Jun 2024

Research Assistant, Part time

LinS Lab, School of Computing, NUS

Built a Gaussian Splatting-to-mesh pipeline for indoor reconstruction and a Gazebo benchmarking platform, and contributed data for ManiFoundation (IROS 2024).
Jan 2023 – Jun 2023

Machine Learning Engineer, Internship

Continental AG

Built core SLAM modules for an autonomous forklift.

Awards & Honors

A*STAR Graduate Scholar (Computing)
A*STAR Graduate Academy, 2026
NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship (SM2)
Ministry of Education Singapore, 2019–2024
Dean's List (Top 5%)
College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2024