Hi there, I am Jingwen YU (中文名：于靖文), a Ph.D. candidate at Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute (CKSRI), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and affiliated with Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics and Computer Vision Lab at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). I am co-supervised by Prof. Ping TAN and Chair Prof. Hong ZHANG (SUSTech). I work closely with Prof. Jiankun WANG, Dr. Jianhao JIAO, Dr. Hengli WANG, Dr. Changkun LIU, Dr. Zhonghang Liu, Dr. Chao TANG, Mr. Hanjing YE, and Miss Lu HUANG. I was with the Intelligent Autonomous Driving Center (IADC) and RAM-Lab, led by Prof. Ming LIU, where I got the chance to work on autonomous vehicles and quadruped robots. Besides, I am also interested in task-oriented grasping, check out the projects section for more details. I earned my B.Eng. of Information Engineering from Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering under advising from Chair Prof. Hong Zhang and Prof. Yajun YU.

Now, I teach robots to locate themselves in changing environments, focusing on:

• Visual Place Recognition / Loop Closure Detection
• Visual Localization and Image Matching
• Visual SLAM

Reach out if you are interested in my research!

News

Last update on April 9th, 2026.

Awards:

OPENNAVMAP: Multi-Session Structure-Free Topometric Mapping for Scalable Visual Navigation Jianhao Jiao, Changkun Liu, Jingwen Yu, Dimitrios Kanoulas Open World Navigation in Human-centric Environments (OWN), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.

Selected Publication:

Full publication list is available on google scholar.

Verification of Loop Closure Detection / Place Recognition

GV-Bench: Benchmarking Local Feature Matching for Geometric Verification of Long-term Loop Closure Detection Jingwen Yu, Hanjing Ye, Jianhao Jiao, Ping Tan, and Hong Zhang IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

ROVER: Robust Loop Closure Verification with Trajectory Prior in Repetitive Environments Jingwen Yu, Jiayi Yang, Jianhao Jiao, Anjun Hu, Zhonghang Liu, Jiankun Wang, Ping Tan, and Hong Zhang IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2026.

Datasets and Benchmarks

FusionPortableV2: A Unified Multi-Sensor Dataset for Generalized SLAM Across Diverse Platforms and Scalable Environments Hexiang Wei, Jianhao Jiao, Xiangcheng Hu, Jingwen Yu, Xupeng Xie, Jin Wu, Yilong Zhu, Yuxuan Liu, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025

TPT-bench: A large-scale, long-term and robot-egocentric dataset for benchmarking target person tracking Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan, Weixi Situ, Guangcheng Chen, Jingwen Yu, Ziqi Zhao, Kuanqi Cai, Arash Ajoudani, Hong Zhang International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2026

Task-Oriented Grasping

Relationship Oriented Semantic Scene Understanding for Daily Manipulation Tasks Chao Tang, Jingwen Yu, Weinan Chen, Bingyi Xia, Hong Zhang IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022.

Education

• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sept, 2021-present
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Electronic and Computer Engineering
• Southern University of Science and Technology, Sept, 2017- Jun, 2021
  • B.Eng. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (with Magna Cum Laude)
  • National Scholarship of China (0.2% Nationwide)
• National University of Singapore, Jun, 2019 - Aug, 2019 (Visiting Student)
• High School Attached To Shandong Normal University, Sept, 2014 - Jun, 2017

Academic Services

• IEEE TASE Reviewer
• IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024, 2025, 2026 Reviewer
• IEEE ICRA 2024, 2025 Reviewer
• IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2022, 2023 Reviewer
• IEEE ICRA 2021 Organizing Committee & Outstanding Volunteer
• MICCAI 2018 Volunteer

Teaching

I have always enjoyed teaching since my undergraduate.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, HKUST, 2022-2023
  • ELEC3120 Computer Communication Network
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, SUSTech, 2020-2021
  • EE346 Mobile Robot Navigation