Kaiyuan Eric Chen

Kaiyuan Eric Chen

Kaiyuan Eric Chen

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where I'm a member of the Berkeley Automation Lab (AUTOLab) and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). My research is guided by Prof. John Kubiatowicz and Prof. Ken Goldberg.

I lead the development of FogROS2, a state-of-the-art open-source cloud robotics framework that seamlessly offloads unmodified ROS2 applications to the cloud, enhancing robotic capabilities through cloud computing. I collaborate closely with the Sky Computing Lab on SkyPilot (7.5k ⭐).

Prior to Berkeley, I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2020, where I conducted research on Wireless Networking under the guidance of Prof. Songwu Lu.

Research Interests: Systems in Robotics, Cloud and Fog Robotics, Computer Networks, and Security

Selected Publications

FogROS2-PLR Reliability Diagram
FogROS2-PLR: Probabilistic Latency-Reliability For Cloud Robotics
ICRA 2025

Kaiyuan Chen, Nan Tian, Christian Juette, Tianshuang Qiu, Liu Ren, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

Robo-DM Big Data Management
Robo-DM: Efficient Robot Big Data Management
ICRA 2025

Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Josh Zhang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Pannag R Sanketi, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

Blox-Net Robot Assembly
Blox-Net: Generative Design-for-Robot-Assembly using VLM Supervision, Physics Simulation, and A Robot with Reset
ICRA 2025

Andrew Goldberg, Kavish Kondap, Tianshuang Qiu, Zehan Ma, Letian Fu, Justin Kerr, Huang Huang, Kaiyuan Chen, Kuan Fang, Ken Goldberg

FogROS2-FT System Architecture
FogROS2-FT: Fault Tolerant Cloud Robotics BEST PAPER FINALIST
Best Student Paper Finalist AND Best Paper Finalist (4 out of 3344 submissions)
IROS 2024

Kaiyuan Chen, Kush Hari, Trinity Chung, Michael Wang, Nan Tian, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Christian Juette, Ren Liu, John Kubiatowicz, Ion Stoica, Ken Goldberg

FogROS2-LS Architecture
FogROS2-LS: A Location-Independent Fog Robotics Framework for Latency Sensitive ROS2 Applications
ICRA 2024

Kaiyuan Chen, Michael Wang, Marcus Gualtieri, Nan Tian, Christian Juette, Liu Ren, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

FogROS2-Config Tool Interface
FogROS2-Config: A Toolkit for Choosing Server Configuration For Cloud Robotics
ICRA 2024

Kaiyuan Chen*, Kush Hari*, Rohil Khare, Charlotte Le, Trinity Chung, Jaimyn Drake, Simeon Adebloa, Jeffrey Ichnowski, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

Lifelong LERF 3D Monitoring
Lifelong LERF: Local 3D Semantic Inventory Monitoring Using FogROS2
ICRA 2024

Adam Rashid, Chung Min Kim, Justin Kerr, Letian Fu, Kush Hari, Ayah Ahmad, Kaiyuan Chen, Huang Huang, Marcus Gualtieri, Michael Wang, Christian Juette, Nan Tian, Liu Ren, Ken Goldberg

FogROS2-SGC Global Connectivity
FogROS2-SGC: A ROS2 Cloud Robotics Platform for Secure Global Connectivity
IROS 2023

Kaiyuan Chen, Ryan Hoque, Karthik Dharmarajan, Edith LLontop, Simeon Adebola, Jeffrey Ichnowski, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

FogROS2 Platform Architecture
FogROS2: An Adaptive Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2 OFFICIAL ROS 2 RELEASE
Part of the official ROS 2 release - available on ROS Index
ICRA 2023

Jeffrey Ichnowski*, Kaiyuan Chen*, Karthik Dharmarajan, Simeon Adebola, Michael Danielczuk, Victor Mayoral-Vilches, Nikhil Jha, Hugo Zhan, Edith LLontop, Derek Xu, Camilo Buscaron, John Kubiatowicz, Ion Stoica, Joseph Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg

Original FogROS Architecture
FogROS: An Adaptive Framework for Automating Fog Robotics Deployment
CASE 2021

Kaiyuan Chen, Yafei Liang, Nikhil Jha, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Michael Danielczuk, Joseph Gonzalez, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg

SELECTED SERVICES

Leading Organizer for Workshop/Tutorial
Journal Reviewer for
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF 13.0)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF 9.9)
Conference Reviewer for
  • 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • 2024 IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • 2024 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
  • 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • 2022 IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)