Haoyu Han
PhD Student, Applied Mathematics
I am a second year Applied Mathmetics Ph.D student at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in Harvard University, where I am fortunate to work with Prof. Heng Yang. Before that, I got bachelor’s degree in Information and Computational Science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
My current research interests lies in reinforcement learning (RL) and robot perception. Both of the core of them is optimization – whether Semi-definite Programming for structure from motion problem or policy gradient method for RL. I aimed to study the optimization landscape for various problem and analyze numerical phenomenon through an optimization perspective.
Interests
Robotics
Perception, Reinforcement Learning, Control
Optimization
Convex optimization, Semi-definite Programming
Education
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2024 - present
Harvard University
BS in Information and Computational Science, 2020 - 2024
University of Science and Technology of China
news
| Feb 01, 2026 | Our paper Sparse Variable Projection in Robotic Perception: Exploiting Separable Structure for Efficient Nonlinear Optimizationg got accepted to International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) 2026! |
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| Aug 06, 2025 | Harvard News: Building 3D Scenes From 2D Images in an Instant. |
| Jul 24, 2025 | I got the Best System Paper Award in Robotics: Science and Systems! |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Our paper Building Rome with Convex Optimization got accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025! |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Our paper On the Surprising Robustness of Sequential Convex Optimization for Contact-Implicit Motion Planning got accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025! |
selected publications
- arXiv