Changan Chen

Graduate Research Assistant

The University of Texas at Austin

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UT Austin advised by Prof. Kristen Grauman. My long-term goal is to bring autonomous agents into the real world, where the agent perceives the world and acts accordingly with respect to its goal.

Previously, I spent a wonderful year working with Prof. Greg Mori on sports video analysis, efficient deep learning , eight months working with Prof. Alexandre Alahi on social navigation in crowds, and eight months working with Prof. Manolis Savva on relational graph reasoning for navigation.

Here is my CV.

Interests

Computer Vision
Robotics
Machine Learning

Education

Ph.D. in Computing Science, 2019

The University of Texas at Austin
B.Sc in Computing Science, 2016

Simon Fraser University
B.Eng in Computer Science, 2014

Zhejiang University

Publications

Relational Graph Learning for Crowd Navigation

A relational graph learning approach for robotic crowd navigation using model-based deep reinforcement learning that plans actions by looking into the future.

Changan Chen, Sha Hu, Greg Mori, Manolis Savva

In Submission to ICRA, 2019

Preprint Code Video

Crowd-Robot Interaction: Crowd-aware Robot Navigation with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning

End-to-end framework that learns to model interactions in a data-driven fashion along with a policy to plan ahead.

Changan Chen, Yuejinag Liu, Sven Kreiss, Alexandre Alahi

ICRA, 2019

Preprint Code Project Video

Constraint-Aware Deep Neural Network Compression

The first principled treatment of deep network compression under operational constraints.

Changan Chen, Fred Tung, Naveen Vedula, Greg Mori

ECCV, 2018

PDF Code Project Poster

Experiences

[Sept. 2019 ~ Current] Graduate Research Assistant at UT Austin, United States
[Jan. 2019 ~ Aug. 2019] Research Assistant at SFU, Canada
[May 2018 ~ Dec. 2018] Research Intern at EPFL, Switzerland
[May 2017 ~ April 2018] Research Assistant at SFU, Canada

Contact

GATES DELL COMPLEX, Room 4.728
2317 SPEEDWAY, AUSTIN
TX 78712, USA