About Me
I am an M.S. student in Artificial Intelligence Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, working in Frederike Duembgen's TRIO Lab. My research focuses on uncertainty in learned models and robotic systems, and on global optimization methods for planning and control. Prior to CMU, I received my B.E. in Robotics Engineering from Chongqing University in 2026. Outside of research, I enjoy running, swimming, and listening to music.
Research Interests
- Uncertainty in Models & Robots: Quantifying and leveraging uncertainty in learned models and robotic systems, so autonomous agents know when to trust their own estimates
- Global Optimization: Sampling-based global optimization for trajectory planning and control, including real-robot deployment
Education
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Expected: Dec 2027
B.E. in Robotics Engineering
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Graduated 2026
Experience
Research Assistant
New York University · Advised by Prof. Chen Feng and Prof. Saining Xie
09/2024 - 05/2025
Worked on uncertainty-aware vision-language navigation (conformal prediction) and on evaluating the spatial reasoning of multimodal large language models in outdoor scenes.
Research Assistant, UCInspire Program
University of California, Irvine · Advised by Prof. Yasser Shoukry
06/2025 - 09/2025
Built an autonomous navigation stack (LiDAR perception, PID control, SLAM, RRT planning) for the RoboRacer competition on an NVIDIA Jetson platform.
Contact
TRIO Lab
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email: junlongn@andrew.cmu.edu