Liqian Ma

I’m a third-year Robotics Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Yongxin Chen. I received my Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2024. Previously, I interned at Toyota Research Institute.

Research Interests

My research aims to enable robots to generalize across complex, unstructured environments while acting safely and reliably. To this end, I work at the intersection of learning-based and model-based methods. Beyond these technical pursuits, I also see robotics as a philosophical journey: a way to explore fundamental questions about intelligence and our own existence.