Ting (Shiting) Gong

Ting (Shiting) Gong

Incoming MSE in Robotics

University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

Robot Learning
Embodied AI

About

I'm an incoming MSE Robotics student at GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. I recently earned my B.S. in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, and before transferring I studied Automation Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Automation.

My research interests center on robot learning and embodied AI. I have worked on RL-based trajectory planning and human following, mentored by Jianpeng Yao and advised by Prof. Jiachen Li, and earlier on bipedal robot navigation, advised by Prof. Ayonga Hereid.

Selected Publications

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* denotes equal contribution; denotes correspondence

Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds

Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds

Shiting Gong*, Jianpeng Yao*, Jinfeng Wang, Marco Pavone, Jiachen Li

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026

News

2026-06

Happy to share that my first first-author paper, Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance, has been accepted to IROS 2026! 🎉 Many thanks to everyone!

2026-05

Earned my B.S. in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University. Go Buckeyes!