About me

Yidong (Easton) Jiang is a senior undergraduate student at the School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
His research interests include robotics and control, whole-body teleoperation, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning.

He is currently an intern under the supervision of Prof. Xiaobin Xiong at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He is also fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yanyong Zhang from the School of Data Science, USTC.

Previously, he gained research experience under Prof. Rong Zheng at McMaster University and Prof. Kani Chen at HKUST.


🎓 Education

UW–Madison Logo University of Wisconsin–MadisonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
Visiting International Student
Aug 2025 – Jun 2026
USTC Logo University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)School of Data Science (DS)
B.Eng. in Data Science
Sep 2022 – Jun 2026 (expected)
Beijing National Day School Logo Beijing National Day School (北京十一学校)
Sep 2019 – Jun 2022

🎥 Some demo of my recent projects

🤖 Robot Arm Teleoperation [code]

🌀 Model-based UAV Tracking


News

  • 🧠 2025.08 – Present: Visiting student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on robotics and control under Prof. Xiaobin Xiong.

  • 📄 2025.07: Paper “BSense: Wide-Area UAV Detection and Localization with 5G-Advanced Base Station” under review at ACM MobiCom 2026.

  • 🎓 2022.09 – Present: Undergraduate student at the School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).