Boyuan Chen
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Strategic Advisor for Robotics
Education
- Ph.D. Columbia University, 2022
Positions
- Dickinson Family Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Courses Taught
- ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 494: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
- ME 493: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
- ME 492: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 394: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 495: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 391: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 292: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 291: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
- COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
Publications
- Hu Y, Lin J, Goldfeder JA, Wyder PM, Cao Y, Tian S, et al. Learning realistic lip motions for humanoid face robots. Science robotics. 2026 Jan;11(110):eadx3017.
- Shaw RJ, Chen B. Physical artificial intelligence in nursing: Robotics. Nursing outlook. 2025 Sep;73(5):102495.
- Guo G, Goldfeder J, Lan L, Ray A, Yang AH, Chen B, et al. Towards end-to-end structure determination from x-ray diffraction data using deep learning. Npj Computational Materials. 2024 Dec 1;10(1).
- Hu Y, Chen B, Lin J, Wang Y, Mehlman C, Lipson H. Human-robot facial coexpression. Science robotics. 2024 Mar;9(88):eadi4724.
- Chen B, Huang K, Raghupathi S, Chandratreya I, Du Q, Lipson H. Automated discovery of fundamental variables hidden in experimental data. Nature computational science. 2022 Jul;2(7):433u201342.
- Chen B, Kwiatkowski R, Vondrick C, Lipson H. Fully body visual self-modeling of robot morphologies. Science robotics. 2022 Jul;7(68):eabn1944.
In The News
- With New Technology, These Robot Dogs Can Run in the Wild (May 27, 2025 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Boyuan Chen on Strengths and Limitations of Robotics (Jan 23, 2025 | Duke Today)
- Dorothy, We Donu2019t Use a Floppy Disk Anymore (Jan 14, 2025 | Duke Magazine)
- Teaching Robots How to Learn (Nov 25, 2024 | Pratt Blueprint)
- Human Touch Gives Robots u2018Listeningu2019 Ability (Oct 28, 2024 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- This Innovative Curriculum Includes Dancing Robots (Apr 27, 2023 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- New Duke MEMS Faculty Member Boyuan Chen Trains AI to Advance Physics (Jul 26, 2022 | Columbia University)
- New Engineering Faculty Member Boyuan Chen Helps Build a Robot That Learns to Understand Itself (Jul 25, 2022 | Columbia University)
- Boyuan Chen: Making General-Purpose Robots That Are Smarter and Self-Aware (Jul 18, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering)