Chuchu Chen

ccchu@udel.edu

I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University, starting Fall 2025.

I completed my Ph.D. in the Robot Perception and Navigation Group (RPNG) at the University of Delaware, where I was advised by Prof. Guoquan (Paul) Huang. I received my B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University in 2017.

Research

My research focuses on state estimation and perception for robotics and XR, combining probabilistic and multi-model sensing, multi-sensor fusion, and real-time perception to enable intelligent understanding and interaction with the physical world.

  • Consistent Visual-inertial Navigation and Mapping

  • Embodied Intelligence and Physical AI

  • Nonlinear state estimation and optimization theory

  • Information fusion, sensor calibration and system parameter identification

  • 7/25: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, Rethinking the Foundations of Visual-Inertial State Estimation, at the University of Delaware.

  • 5/25: I will be joining The George Washington University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025 and am looking for motivated PhD students to join my lab.

  • 5/25: Two papers will be presented at ICRA; see you in Atlanta!

  • Our new IJRR paper on VIO initialization is now available.

  • Square Root Filter-based VINS won the ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award Finalist (Robot Vision).

  • Five papers accepted to ICRA 2024.

  • I have been awarded the Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence!

  • Our paper won the RSS 2023 Best Student Paper Finalist.

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