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The AI4CE lab (pronounced as “A-I-force”) at New York University conducts multidisciplinary use-inspired research to develop novel algorithms and systems for intelligent agents to accurately understand and efficiently interact with materials and humans in dynamic and unstructured environments. We aim to fundamentally advance Robotics and AI in areas such as localization, mapping, navigation, mobile manipulation, and scene understanding, to address infrastructure challenges on Earth and beyond, including construction robotics, manufacturing automation, and autonomous vehicles.
AI4CE Lab is part of the new NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence!
Research Interests
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Construction Automation
- Computing in Civil Engineering
News
- Our lab’s first spinoff startup Building Diagnostic Robotics (BDR) was founded in 2023!
- Our lab is featured on IEEE Spectrum together with other three NYU robotics teams!
- [12/2025] Inauguration of NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO)! Dr. Feng is a co-director of the center.
- [10/2025] CoVision receives an Outstanding Paper Award in HiCV workshop, ICCV 2025! Congratulations to Chao, Juexiao and their collaborators.
- [10/2025] Research led by Ruixuan Zhang won the NYC Vision Zero Research Award! Congratulations to Ruixuan and his collaborators Zilin, Juexiao and Beichen.
- [09/2025] Dr. Feng will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2026.
- [09/2025] Dr. Feng will serve as construction robotics track chair for ASCE i3CE 2026.
- [09/2025] Congratulations to Jing on being selected for MIT EECS Rising Stars 2025!
- [09/2025] Congratulations to our junior members for entering their PhD programs: Siqi Tan -> Oxford, Suozhi Huang -> Princeton, Shuzhen Li -> Princeton, Zitai Xu -> UM, Kairui -> Buffalo, Beichen Wang -> GMU, Jintong Li -> Rutgers, Xuhang He -> UC Merced, and Tim Guo -> CMU. Good luck on your future endeavors!
- [08/2025] Congratulations to Chao for passing his PhD defense! Watch the defense talk.
- [06/2025] CoVision will be presented at ICCV 2025 HiCV Workshop!
- [06/2025] EUVS, Garf and RAP are accepted at ICCV 2025! See you in Hawaii!
- [06/2025] SeeDo is accepted at IROS 2025! See you in Hangzhou!
- [06/2025] Jing is invited for a keynote speech at the SINT4CH workshop at CVPR 2025.
- [06/2025] Dr. Feng is invited for a keynote speech at the DriveX workshop at CVPR 2025.
- [02/2025] CityWalker is accepted by CVPR 2025.
- [01/2025] TF-VPR is accepted by RA-L and will be presented at ICRA 2025.
- [01/2025] Two papers (FusionSense, NYU-Event-VPR) are accepted by ICRA 2025.
- [11/2024] Congratulations to Yiming for passing his PhD defense! Watch the defense talk.
- [10/2024] Two papers (3DGM, MSG) accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
- [10/2024] Xinhao presented 3 papers (SSCBench, Occ4cast, Roofus) from our lab at IROS 2024 Abu Dhabi.
- [09/2024] Dr. Feng is serving as an area chair for CVPR 2025.
- [09/2024] Dr. Feng receives 2024 Tandon Faculty Award and now holds the title of Institute Associate Professor.
- [06/2024] Dr. Feng has received his tenure and promotion approval from NYU. Congratulations!
- [04/2024] Congratulations to our junior members for being accepted to PhD programs: Jiamu Bai -> Penn State PhD Fall'2023, Nobel Dang -> Clemson PhD Fall'2023, Nuo Chen -> UM Twin City PhD Fall'2024, Zonglin Lyu -> Utah PhD Fall'2024, Sizhe Wei -> GaTech PhD Fall'2024, Xinran Tang -> UCF PhD Fall'2024, Zhitao Li -> Lehigh PhD Fall'2024.
- [02/2024] Two papers accepted by CVPR 2024.
- [02/2024] Congratulations to Wenyu for successfully defending his PhD thesis! His defense talk is here.
- [01/2024] Three papers accepted by ICRA 2024.
- [12/2023] Congratulations to Yiming for winning the NVIDIA Scholarship! Read the news.
Current Team
Senior Members
Chen Feng
Principle Investigator (PI) of the AI4CE group. One of Chen’s most ambitious academic dream is to enable robots like Wall-E and Baymax which could help humanity.
Chen Feng
Associate Professor at NYU
Jing Zhang
Jing Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow. She received her B.E. in Wuhan University. Her research interest lies in 3D computer vision and the application of artificial intelligence in archaeology.
Jing Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yongqing Liang
Yongqing Liang is a postdoctoral researcher. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research interests are computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics.
Yongqing Liang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xuchu Xu
Xuchu is a PhD student. His motto is “Stay hungry, Stay foolish” and wants to be a man from the future.
Xuchu Xu
Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering
Hanwen Zhao
Hanwen is a PhD student. He received his B.S. from University of Colorado Boulder and M.S. from Columbia University. His research interests are Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Hanwen Zhao
Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering
Anbang Yang
Anbang Yang is a PhD candidate in the AI4CE lab at New York University, focusing on developing visual navigation systems to assist visually impaired individuals. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from Dalian University of Technology. Anbang has experience as a software engineer, developing navigation systems and constructing 3D maps for indoor navigation. His research interests include visual localization, 3D reconstruction, and spatial reasoning.
Anbang Yang
Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering
Ruixuan Zhang
Ruixuan is a Ph.D. student in Transportation at the Tandon School of Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Kaan Ozbay. His research focuses on machine learning and intelligent transportation systems, aiming to provide multi-modal (vision and language) solutions for safety and decision-making.
Ruixuan Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate in Transportation Engineering
Bilal Sher
Bilal has an MS in Civil Engineering from NYU, and a BSc. from the University of Calgary. He is passionate about using technologies such as computer vision and deep learning to solve civil engineering problems.
Bilal Sher
Founder and CEO of Building Diagnostic Robotics, Inc.
Diwei Sheng
Diwei is an Ph.D. student in computer science. His research interests are artificial intelligence and computer vision. He is doing research on visual place recognition.
Diwei Sheng
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Irving Fang
Irving is a Ph.D. student from the CSE department. He did his undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Data Science and Math. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, vision, and machine learning.
Irving Fang
Ph.D. Candidate in CSE
Juexiao Zhang
Juexiao Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the Courant Institute majoring in Computer science. He obtained his BS in EE from Tsinghua University. He is interested in machine learning, especially building AI systems that can efficiently learn representations from multimodal signals.
Juexiao Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Sihang Li
Sihang Li is a Ph.D student in M.E in Tandon School of Engineering. He received his B.E. in Tongji University. His research interests are Robot Perception, autonomous driving and Machine Learning.
Sihang Li
Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering
Xinhao Liu
Xinhao is a Ph.D student in Computer Science. He received his B.Sc. degree from NYU and NYU Shanghai. His research interest is 3D perception and human-like navigation.
Xinhao Liu
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Anuj Doshi
My name is Anuj Doshi. I am passionate about working on computer vision problems. My interests are in microscopic object detection, multi-modal AI, and collaborative robotics. I earned my master’s in robotics and mechatronics from NYU and currently lead AI projects at Nanotronics Imaging.
Anuj Doshi
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering
Yuzhong Chen
Yuzhong Chen is a Ph.D student in Computer Science in Tandon School of Engineering. He received his B.Eng. from CUHK(SZ) and M.S. from NYU. He is interested in robot perception and mobile manipulation.
Yuzhong Chen
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Junior Members
Harsh Sutaria
Harsh co-leads the VIP Self Drive team. His research interests include representation learning, world models and planning.
Harsh Sutaria
M.S. in Computer Science
Hellen Luo
Hellen is an undergraduate student at Princeton University studying Computer Science with intended minors in Mathematics and Visual Arts.
Hellen Luo
A.B. in Computer Science
Luca Macesanu
I’m interested in mobile manipulation with a focus on long horizon task and motion planning.
Luca Macesanu
M.S. in Robotics
Prem Sukhadwala
Prem completed his M.S. in Robotics from Northeastern University and his interests lies at the intersection of hardware and software for Robotics and Embodied AI. He is an avid stargazer, aspiring guitarist and enjoys being outdoors in nature.
Prem Sukhadwala
Visiting Research Assistant
Zeyu Jiang
Zeyu is an MSCS student at NYU with research interests in 3D Computer Vision, Robotics and Generative Models.
Zeyu Jiang
M.S. in Computer Science
Zihan Liu
I am the co-lead of VIP Self Drive Team. During the spare time I enjoy playing Rubik’s Cubes.
Zihan Liu
Undergraduate in Computer Science and Mathematics
Yipeng Wang
Research interests lie in robot learning in manipulation & vision, and control theories. During my time at NYU, I am fortunate to actively participate in the research of Mobile Manipulator and Object Rearrangement Tasks at AI4CE Lab led by Prof. Chen Feng.
Yipeng Wang
B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
James Jin
James majors in computer science and wishes to turn his research interests in computer vision into a PhD career. He believes in the value of serving the academics and enriching its open exchange of knowledge.
James Jin
B.S. in Computer Science
Celestino Martinez
I am currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Robotics. My interests include machine learning, deep learning, and robotics.
Celestino Martinez
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Jonah Kamat
Jonah is a computer engineering graduate and researcher in the AI4CE lab. His interests lie in computer vision, natural language processing, and 3D reconstruction.
Jonah Kamat
B.S. Computer Engineering
Zehong Wang
M.S. student, New York University
Zehong Wang
M.S. in Computer Science
Idan Lau
I am currently pursuing a BS in Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics at NYU Tandon School Of Engineering. My interests include Backend Programming, Data Science/Machine Learning and Computer Networking
Idan Lau
B.S. in Computer Science
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science in 2024 from New York University, following his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) also in Computer Science (2023). While pursuing his studies, he actively contributed to research at Building Diagnostic Robotics, a New York University robotics startup. There, he focused on integrating deep learning with robotics to develop robust autonomous diagnostics systems. His research interests lie in deep learning, robotics, and signal processing.
Kevin Lee
M.S. in Computer Science
Wei-Heng Lin
I graduated from NYU Tandon with M.S. in Computer Science in 2024 and am currently working at BDR to develop ML solutions for building anomaly detection. My interest lies in solving real-life problems using Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning.
Wei-Heng Lin
M.S. in Computer Science
Selected Publications
Sihang Li
,Siqi (Kevin) Tan
,Bowen Chang
,Jing Zhang
,Chen Feng
,Yiming Li
Xiangyu Han
,Zhen Jia
,Boyi Li
,Yan Wang
,Boris Ivanovic
,Yurong You
,Lingjie Liu
,Yue Wang
,Marco Pavone
,Chen Feng
,Yiming Li
Sihang Li
,Zeyu Jiang
,Grace Chen
,Chenyang Xu
,Siqi (Kevin) Tan
,Xue Wang
,Irving Fang
,Kristof Zyskowski
,Shannon P. McPherron
,Radu Iovita
,Chen Feng
,Jing Zhang
Xinhao Liu
,Jintong Li
,Yicheng Jiang
,Niranjan Sujay
,Zhicheng Yang
,Juexiao Zhang
,John Abanes
,Jing Zhang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zehong Wang
,Yue Wang
,Zhiding Yu
,Zan Gojcic
,Marco Pavone
,Chen Feng
,Jose M. Alvarez
Juexiao Zhang
,Gao Zhu
,Sihang Li
,Xinhao Liu
,Haorui Song
,Xinran Tang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zhiheng Li
,Nuo Chen
,Moonjun Gong
,Zonglin Lyu
,Zehong Wang
,Peili Jiang
,Chen Feng
Jing Zhang
,Irving Fang
,Hao Wu
,Akshat Kaushik
,Alice Rodriguez
,Hanwen Zhao
,Juexiao Zhang
,Zhuo Zheng
,Radu Iovita
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Sihang Li
,Xinhao Liu
,Moonjun Gong
,Kenan Li
,Nuo Chen
,Zijun Wang
,Zhiheng Li
,Tao Jiang
,Fisher Yu
,Yue Wang
,Hang Zhao
,Zhiding Yu
,Chen Feng
Yuhang He
,Irving Fang
,Yiming Li
,Rushi Bhavesh Shah
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zhiding Yu
,Chris Choy
,Chaowei Xiao
,Jose M. Alvarez
,Sanja Fidler
,Chen Feng
,Anima Anandkumar
Yiming Li
,Congcong Wen
,Felix Juefei-Xu
,Chen Feng
Ruoyu Wang
,Shiheng Wang
,Songyu Du
,Erdong Xiao
,Wenzhen Yuan
,Chen Feng
Wenyu Han
,Siyuan Xiang
,Chenhui Liu
,Ruoyu Wang
,Chen Feng
Li Ding
,Chen Feng
Yaoqing Yang
,Chen Feng
,Yiru Shen
,Dong Tian
Recent Publications
Sihang Li
,Siqi (Kevin) Tan
,Bowen Chang
,Jing Zhang
,Chen Feng
,Yiming Li
Xiangyu Han
,Zhen Jia
,Boyi Li
,Yan Wang
,Boris Ivanovic
,Yurong You
,Lingjie Liu
,Yue Wang
,Marco Pavone
,Chen Feng
,Yiming Li
Sihang Li
,Zeyu Jiang
,Grace Chen
,Chenyang Xu
,Siqi (Kevin) Tan
,Xue Wang
,Irving Fang
,Kristof Zyskowski
,Shannon P. McPherron
,Radu Iovita
,Chen Feng
,Jing Zhang
Chao Chen
,Nobel Dang
,Juexiao Zhang
,Wenkai Sun
,Pengfei Zheng
,Xuhang He
,Yimeng Ye
,Taarun Srinivas
,Chen Feng
Beichen Wang
,Juexiao Zhang
,Shuwen Dong
,Irving Fang
,Chen Feng
Taiyi Pan
,Junyang He
,Chao Chen
,Yiming Li
,Chen Feng
Chao Chen
,Zegang Cheng (Hooley)
,Xinhao Liu
,Yiming Li
,Li Ding
,Ruoyu Wang
,Chen Feng
Xinhao Liu
,Jintong Li
,Yicheng Jiang
,Niranjan Sujay
,Zhicheng Yang
,Juexiao Zhang
,John Abanes
,Jing Zhang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zehong Wang
,Yue Wang
,Zhiding Yu
,Zan Gojcic
,Marco Pavone
,Chen Feng
,Jose M. Alvarez
Juexiao Zhang
,Gao Zhu
,Sihang Li
,Xinhao Liu
,Haorui Song
,Xinran Tang
,Chen Feng
Irving Fang
,Kairui Shi
,Xujin He
,Siqi (Kevin) Tan
,Yifan Wang
,Hanwen Zhao
,Hung-Jui Huang
,Wenzhen Yuan
,Chen Feng
,Jing Zhang
Irving Fang
,Yuzhong Chen
,Yifan Wang
,Jianghan Zhang
,Qiushi Zhang
,Jiali Xu
,Xibo He
,Weibo Gao
,Hao Su
,Yiming Li
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zhiheng Li
,Nuo Chen
,Moonjun Gong
,Zonglin Lyu
,Zehong Wang
,Peili Jiang
,Chen Feng
Suozhi Huang
,Juexiao Zhang
,Yiming Li
,Chen Feng
Jing Zhang
,Irving Fang
,Hao Wu
,Akshat Kaushik
,Alice Rodriguez
,Hanwen Zhao
,Juexiao Zhang
,Zhuo Zheng
,Radu Iovita
,Chen Feng
Diwei Sheng
,Anbang Yang
,John-Ross Rizzo
,Chen Feng
Zonglin Lyu
,Juexiao Zhang
,Mingxuan Lu
,Yiming Li
,Chen Feng
Xinhao Liu
,Moonjun Gong
,Qi Fang
,Haoyu Xie
,Yiming Li
,Hang Zhao
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Qi Fang
,Jiamu Bai
,Siheng Chen
,Felix Juefei-Xu
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Sihang Li
,Xinhao Liu
,Moonjun Gong
,Kenan Li
,Nuo Chen
,Zijun Wang
,Zhiheng Li
,Tao Jiang
,Fisher Yu
,Yue Wang
,Hang Zhao
,Zhiding Yu
,Chen Feng
Sanbao Su
,Songyang Han
,Yiming Li
,Zhili Zhang
,Chen Feng
,Caiwen Ding
,Fei Miao
Yuhang He
,Irving Fang
,Yiming Li
,Rushi Bhavesh Shah
,Chen Feng
Uksang Yoo
,Hanwen Zhao
,Alvaro Altamirano
,Wenzhen Yuan
,Chen Feng
Chao Chen
,Xinhao Liu
,Yiming Li
,Li Ding
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Zhiding Yu
,Chris Choy
,Chaowei Xiao
,Jose M. Alvarez
,Sanja Fidler
,Chen Feng
,Anima Anandkumar
Wenyu Han
,Haoran Wu
,Eisuke Hirota
,Alexander Gao
,Lerrel Pinto
,Ludovic Righetti
,Chen Feng
Sanbao Su
,Yiming Li
,Sihong He
,Songyang Han
,Chen Feng
,Caiwen Ding
,Fei Miao
Yiming Li
,Juexiao Zhang
,Dekun Ma
,Yue Wang
,Chen Feng
Chao Chen
,Xinhao Liu
,Xuchu Xu
,Yiming Li
,Li Ding
,Ruoyu Wang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Dekun Ma
,Ziyan An
,Zixun Wang
,Yiqi Zhong
,Siheng Chen
,Chen Feng
Siyuan Xiang
,Anbang Yang
,Yanfei Xue
,Yaoqing Yang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Ziang Cao*
,Andrew Liang
,Benjamin Liang
,Luoyao Chen
,Hang Zhao
,Chen Feng
Jeremy Shen
,Erdong Xiao
,Yuchen Liu
,Chen Feng
Ruoyu Wang
,Xuchu Xu
,Li Ding
,Yang Huang
,Chen Feng
Yiming Li
,Shunli Ren
,Pengxiang Wu
,Siheng Chen
,Chen Feng
,Wenjun Zhang
Diwei Sheng
,Yuxiang Chai
,Xinru Li
,Chen Feng
,Jianzhe Lin
,Claudio Silva
,John-Ross Rizzo
Uljad Berdica
,Yuewei Fu
,Yuchen Liu
,Emmanouil Angelidis
,Chen Feng
Siyuan Xiang
,Ruoyu Wang
,Chen Feng
Xuchu Xu
,Ziteng Wang
,Chen Feng
Wenyu Han
,Chen Feng
,Haoran Wu
,Alexander Gao
,Armand Jordana
,Dong Liu
,Lerrel Pinto
,Ludovic Righetti
Yiming Li
,Congcong Wen
,Felix Juefei-Xu
,Chen Feng
Siheng Chen
,Baoan Liu
,Chen Feng
,Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez
,Carl Wellington
Lichao Xu
,Chen Feng
,Vineet R Kamat
,Carol C Menassa
Abhinav Kumar
,Tim K Marks
,Wenxuan Mou
,Ye Wang
,Michael Jones
,Anoop Cherian
,Toshiaki Koike-Akino
,Xiaoming Liu
,Chen Feng
Ruoyu Wang
,Shiheng Wang
,Songyu Du
,Erdong Xiao
,Wenzhen Yuan
,Chen Feng
Rongmei Lin
,Weiyang Liu
,Zhen Liu
,Chen Feng
,Zhiding Yu
,James M Rehg
,Li Xiong
,Le Song
Wenyu Han
,Siyuan Xiang
,Chenhui Liu
,Ruoyu Wang
,Chen Feng
Siheng Chen
,Chaojing Duan
,Yaoqing Yang
,Duanshun Li
,Chen Feng
,Dong Tian
Wenjun Gui
,Bingyu Li
,Shuaihang Yuan
,John-Ross Rizzo
,Lakshay Sharma
,Chen Feng
,Anthony Tzes
,Yi Fang
Lichao Xu
,Chen Feng
,Vineet R Kamat
,Carol C Menassa
Li Ding
,Chen Feng
Duanshun Li
,Chen Feng
Xin Yu
,Sagar Chaturvedi
,Chen Feng
,Yuichi Taguchi
,Teng-Yok Lee
,Clinton Fernandes
,Srikumar Ramalingam
Zhiding Yu
,Weiyang Liu
,Yang Zou
,Chen Feng
,Srikumar Ramalingam
,BVK Vijaya Kumar
,Jan Kautz
Yiru Shen
,Chen Feng
,Yaoqing Yang
,Dong Tian
Yaoqing Yang
,Chen Feng
,Yiru Shen
,Dong Tian
Siheng Chen
,Dong Tian
,Chen Feng
,Anthony Vetro
,Jelena Kovačević
Chen Feng
,Yuichi Taguchi
Zhiding Yu
,Chen Feng
,Ming-Yu Liu
,Srikumar Ramalingam
Chen Feng
,Ming-Yu Liu
,Chieh-Chi Kao
,Teng-Yok Lee
Chen Feng
,Vineet R Kamat
,Hubo Cai
Chen Feng
,Yuichi Taguchi
,Vineet R Kamat
Yuichi Taguchi
,Yong-Dian Jian
,Srikumar Ramalingam
,Chen Feng
Datasets
Teaching
Funding Sources
We are very grateful for the funding supports from the following agencies, organizations, and companies:
Contact
- cfeng at nyu dot edu
- 4th floor, RH409, 6 MetroTech Center, New York University, NY 11201
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