Research Interests: Robotics Swarm, Autonomous and Intelligent System, High-throughput Phenotyping
Email: yl3663@cornell.edu
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2023–present
- B.Eng. in Agriculture Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2019–2023
Work experience
Graduate Research Assistant · 2023/08–Present
CAIR Lab, Cornell University
Supervisor: Dr. Yu Jiang
Minor Committee Members: Dr. Kaitlin (Katie) Gold and Dr. Nils Napp
Teaching Assistant · 2024/08–2024/12
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
ECE 4110/5110 — Random Signals in Communications and Signal Processing
Supervisor: Dr. Qing Zhao
Research Assistant · 2022/04–2023/04
FAST Lab, Zhejiang University · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University
Supervisors: Dr. Yanjun Cao and Dr. Fei Gao
Publications
- SAM-CLIP-Thermal: Leveraging Large Multimodal Models for Reliable and Scalable Annotation in Thermal Image Segmentation for Field Plant Phenotyping — Plant Phenomics, 2026
- Robot-Enabled Field Phenotyping of Grape Berry Cluster Color Using Multimodal Vision Foundation Models for Genetic Mapping — ASABE 2026 Annual International Meeting, 2026
- Beyond Seasonality: A High-Fidelity Apple Orchard Digital Twins — ASABE 2026 Annual International Meeting, 2026
- Integrating Large Multi-Modal Models for Automated Powdery Mildew Phenotyping in Grapevines — Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (under review), 2026
- DATR: Diffusion-based 3D Apple Tree Reconstruction Framework with Sparse-View — IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
- Effective integration of vision foundational models for semantic segmentation to quantify grape foliage powdery mildew infection — ASABE 2024 Annual International Meeting, 2024
- Automated rice phenology stage mapping using UAV images and deep learning — Drones, 2023
Talks
- Physics-Informed Adaptive Robotic System for Agricultural Phenotyping and Precision Management — School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2026
- Robot-Enabled Field Phenotyping of Grape Berry Cluster Color Using Multimodal Vision Foundation Models for Genetic Mapping — 2026 ASABE AIM, 2026
- Aerial & Ground Co-Development: Multi-Scale and Multi-Modal Disease Monitoring in Specialy Crops — NASA Acres, 2026
- PPB-NG: Next Generation PhytoPatholoBot with Multimodal Sensing for Specialty Crop Research and Production — NABEC 2025, 2025
- PhytoPatholoBot Imaging System — VitisGen3 2025 AIM, 2025
- Effective integration of vision foundational models for semantic segmentation to quantify grape foliage powdery mildew infection — 2024 ASABE AIM, 2024
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Chairman of Chiu Chow Hometown Association of Zhejiang University, 2021/01–2022/01