Hongrui Yu
Assistant Professor
Hongrui Yu
113C Patton Hall
750 Drillfield Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Program Area : Construction Engineering and Management
Personal Homepage : https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/hongruiyu/home
Dr. Yu is seeking two highly motivated Ph.D. students to work in the areas of Construction Automation, Human-Robot Collaboration, and Imitation Learning. If you have a strong interest in these fields, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Yu at hryu42@vt.edu.
Areas of Interest
Human Robot Collaborative Construction
Construction 4.0
Imitation Learning
Cloud Computing
- B.S. In Civil Engineering, Northwest A&F University, China, 2018
- M.S. in Environmental Engineering, Science, and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019
- M.S. in Robotics, University of Michigan, 2024
- Ph.D. In Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, 2024
- Best Paper Award, ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, 2024
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2024
- Runner-Up Award, ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering Ph.D. Poster Session, 2023
- Ph.D. Student Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, 2023
- Rackham Graduate Student Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2023
- Durham School Ph.D. Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023
- C.E. Bottum and R. Harris Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2022
- John L. Tishman Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2020
- Finalist, CMU VentureWell Energy Hackathon, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019
- Top 100 University Graduate, Northwest A&F University, 2018
- National Scholarship, Northwest A&F University, 2014 – 2017