Resume - Hu Tianrun

Hu Tianrun

tianrunhu@gmail.com tianrun.hu@u.nus.edu +65 9132 6083 GitHub LinkedIn

Education

Aug 2026 - Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Jul 2020-Jul 2024

B.Eng. in Computer Engineering, Distinction Honours

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research & Professional Experience

Jul 2026 - Present

Robot Navigation for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Stanford University
- Collaborative research project with Dr. Yiqing Xu under Prof. Jiajun Wu.
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026

Research Engineer, Full time

Adaptive Computing Lab, Smart Systems Institute (SSI), National University of Singapore
- Led and contributed to research across visibility-aware mobile grasping, open-world robot planning, uncertainty-aware visual grounding, and object-centric manipulation policies, resulting in publications at RSS, NeurIPS, CoRL, and ICRA, including a first-author RSS 2026 workshop oral.
- Built reusable mobile-manipulation infrastructure spanning real-time whole-body motion planning and multimodal imitation learning across Fetch, Kinova, and Franka platforms.
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024

Research Assistant, Part time

LinS Lab, School of Computing (SoC), National University of Singapore
- Led development of an enhanced Gaussian Splatting-to-mesh pipeline for indoor 3D reconstruction with multi-regularization strategies achieving state-of-the-art mesh quality. Built a high-fidelity Gazebo simulation platform for benchmarking.
- Contributed to data generation and processing for the Manipulation Foundation Model (IROS 2024).
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

Machine Learning Engineer, Internship

Continental AG
- Developed core SLAM modules for an autonomous forklift project, focusing on robust localization and mapping in complex industrial environments.

Awards & Honors

A*STAR Graduate Scholar (Computing)
A*STAR Graduate Academy, 2026
NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship (SM2)
Ministry of Education Singapore, 2019-2024
Dean's List (Top 5%)
College of Computing and Data Science(CCDS), Nanyang Technological University(NTU), 2024