My research interests include robotic grasp learning, robotic manipulation systems and uncertainty estimation.

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2026.02: Oral presentation in 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC) (20/244) 🎉🎉
2026.02: 3 papers accepted by ICRA 🎉🎉
2026.02: 1 co-authored paper accepted by ICLR 🎉🎉
2025.06: 1 paper accepted by IROS 🎉🎉

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (10/2023 - Present)
M. Sc. Electromobility (Autonomous and Connected Driving), University of Stuttgart (10/2020 - 04/2023)
B. Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Sino-German Program), Hochschule Furtwangen, Villingen-Schwenningen (10/2019 - 07/2020)
B. Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) (09/2016 - 07/2020) (Award: College Graduate Excellence Award of Shanghai, 2020)

10/2023 - Present: Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), KIT
11/2022 - 04/2023: Research Assistant, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Renningen
- Thesis title: Uncertainty-driven exploration strategies for online learning in robotic grasping
04/2022 - 10/2022: Research Assistant, Institute for Signal Processing and System Theory (ISS), University of Stuttgart
- Thesis title: A Bayesian Approach for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in 2D Object Detection
04/2022 - 10/2022: Research Assistant, Research Institute for Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKFS)

HOGraspFlow: Taxonomy-Aware Hand–Object Retargeting for Multi-Modal SE(3) Grasp Generation

Y Shi, Z Guo, R Wolf, E Welte, R Rayyes

2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [Link]

vMF-Contact: Uncertainty-aware Evidential Learning for Probabilistic Contact-grasp in Noisy Clutter

Y Shi, E Welte, M Gilles, R Rayyes

2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [Link]

VISO-Grasp: Vision-Language Informed Spatial Object-centric 6-DoF Active View Planning and Grasping in Clutter and Invisibility

Y Shi, D Wen, G Chen, E Welte, S Liu, K Peng, R Stiefelhagen, R Rayyes

2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) [Link]

Uncertainty-driven Exploration Strategies for Online Grasp Learning

Y Shi, P Schillinger, M Gabriel, A Kuss, Z Feldman, H Ziesche, NA Vien

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [Link]

FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation

E, Welte, Y Shi, R Wolf, M Gilles, R Rayyes

under review [Link]

Diffusion Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey

R Wolf, Y Shi, S Liu, R Rayyes

Frontiers in Robotics and AI [Link]

Go Beyond Earth: Understanding Human Actions and Scenes in Microgravity Environments

D Wen, L Qi, K Peng, K Yang, F Teng, A Luo, J Fu, Y Chen, R Liu, Y Shi, et al.

2026 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [Link]
Human-Interpretable Uncertainty Explanations for Point Cloud Registration

JA Gaus, L Schneider, Y Shi, J Lee, R Rayyes, R Triebel

2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [Link]
Mica: Multi-agent industrial coordination assistant

D Wen, K Peng, J Zheng, Y Chen, Y Shi, J Wei, R Liu, K Yang, et al.

2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [Link]
A Control Architecture for Robust and Resilient Circular Factories under Uncertain Conditions

F Bail, J Baumgärtner, F Erlenbusch, A Ernst, M Poyer, E Blum, Y Shi, et al.

Procedia CIRP [Link]
A Knowledge-Based Intralogistic System for a Circular Factory

JF Klein, R Wolf, A Ernst, Y Shi, P Schumacher, RB Thapa, R Rayyes, et al.

Logistics Journal: Proceedings, 2025 [Link]

Enhancing Robotic Grasping with Uncertainty-Aware Exploration for Unseen Objects

Y Shi, AV Ngo, R Rayyes

RSS 2024 Workshop on “Open-Set Robot Perception in the Wild” (Best Paper Award) [Link]

Grasp the Invisibility by Vision-Language guided Active View Planning

Y Shi, D Wen, E Welte, K Peng, R Stiefelhagen, R Rayyes

ICRA 2025 Workshop on “Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning” [Link]