Dr. Yijiong Lin

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK. I am currently working on the ARIA-funded project ‘Democratising Co-Design of Hardware and Control for Robot Dexterity’ project in the Robot Dexterity program, led by Prof. Nathan Lepora and Prof. Edward Johns (Imeprial College London). My research focuses on developing multimodal sensing and sim-to-real deep reinforcement learning methods for dexterous robotic manipulation.

I recieved my Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mathematics in 2025 from the University of Bristol, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Nathan Lepora, Dr. Efi Psomopoulou, and Dr. Dandan Zhang. My doctoral research is ‘Sim-to-Real Deep Tactile Policies for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation’. Prior to that, I obtained my master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation at the Guangdong University of Technology in 2020, supervised by Prof. Yisheng Guan and Dr. Juan Rojas. During my master’s period, I worked with Prof. Paul Weng at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute as a visiting student and later conducted a one-year research project on Reinforcement Learning. I did my Master’s thesis on Highly-efficient Robot Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning.

In my free time, you can catch me playing badminton, swimming, or exploring urban and natural views with my lovely camera (some selections). I’m also a cat person.