Tenny Yin

Hi! I'm a first year PhD student at Princeton advised by Prof. Ani Majumdar. I'm interested in building safe and reliable robotic systems that can work alongside humans.

Previously, I recevied my B.S. in Computer Science (CS) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Cornell University. I am fortunate to work with Prof. Hadas Kress-Gazit on verifiable robotics and Prof. Bharath Hariharan on visual navigation.

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Research

	WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Tao Sun, Lihan Zha, Emily Zhou, Jeremy Bao, Miyu Yamane, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar, Under Review Webpage / Paper / Video Training open-vocabulary localization policies that exploit commonsense reasoning abilities of VLMs, generalize to novel scenes and tasks, and are grounded in the physical world.
	Robust Task-Based Design of Modular Manipulators With Single Joint Failure Tenny Yin, Thais Campos Farley, Hadas Kress-Gazit IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2025 Automating design of failure-tolerant modular manipulators capable of continuing task execution in the event of arbitrary locked-joint failures.
	Continuous Execution of High-Level Collaborative Tasks for Heterogeneous Robot Teams Amy Fang, Tenny Yin, Janna Lin, Hadas Kress-Gazit Main Paper Under Review. Extension Paper: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025 A control framework for heterogeneous multi-robot teams to automatically synthesize correct, synchronized action planning for collaborative tasks.
	LibPreemptible: Enabling Fast, Adaptive, and Hardware-Assisted User-Space Scheduling Yueying Li, Nikita Lazarev, David Koufaty, Tenny Yin, Andy Anderson, Zhiru Zhang, Edward Suh, Kostis Kaffes Christina Delimitrou IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2024

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