Yaofeng Desmond Zhong

Researcher, Breakpoint AI

Joined

September 2019

Names

Yaofeng Desmond Zhong (Preferred)

Emails

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Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Breakpoint AI (setbreakpoint.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Siemens (siemens.com)

2020 – 2024

PhD student

Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2015 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Amit Chakraborty

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Biswadip Dey

2015 – Present

PhD Advisor

Naomi E. Leonard

2015 – 2020

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Improving Gradient Computation for Differentiable Physics Simulation with Contacts
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Jiequn Han, Biswadip Dey, Georgia Olympia Brikis
- L4DC 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Neural ODE Interpretation of Transformer Layers
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Tongtao Zhang, Amit Chakraborty, Biswadip Dey
- Published: 21 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- DLDE 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Differentiable Physics Simulations with Contacts: Do They Have Correct Gradients w.r.t. Position, Velocity and Control?
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Jiequn Han, Georgia Olympia Brikis
- Published: 15 Jun 2022, Last Modified: 30 Dec 2025
- ICML-AI4Science Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Influence Spread in the Heterogeneous Multiplex Linear Threshold Model
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Vaibhav Srivastava, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
- IEEE Trans. Control. Netw. Syst. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
A Neural ODE Interpretation of Transformer Layers
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Tongtao Zhang, Amit Chakraborty, Biswadip Dey
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 11 Jan 2024
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
EMVLight: A Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Passage of Emergency Vehicles
Haoran Su, Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 11 Jan 2024
- AAAI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Extending Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Neural Networks with Differentiable Contact Models
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Extending Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Neural Networks with Differentiable Contact Models
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Robot Task Allocation Games in Dynamically Changing Environments
Shinkyu Park, Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
- ICRA 2021
- Readers: Everyone
A Differentiable Contact Model to Extend Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Neural Networks for Modeling Hybrid Dynamics
Yaofeng Desmond Zhong, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
- 2021 (modified: 11 Jan 2024)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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