Biography

I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor (postdoc) of School of Mathematics and Southeast Center of Mathematics and Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology. My mentor is Dr. Greg Blekherman, and I also collaborate with Dr. Daniel Goldman’s CRAB Lab on the study of animal locomotions.

In the Fall 2021 semester, I am teaching Math 1553 - Introduction to Linear Algebra, which will be in person.

I was born and raised in Beijing, China. My name in Simplified Chinese is 林博.

Recently, our paper Moving sidewinding forward: optimizing contact patterns for limbless robots via geometric mechanics was selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the Robotics, Science and Systems 2021 Conference.

Interests

  • Mathematical Biology
  • Tropical Geometry
  • Combinatorics

Education

  • PhD in Mathematics, 2017

    University of California, Berkeley

  • BS in Mathematics, 2013

    Peking University

Recent Publications

Moving sidewinding forward: optimizing contact patterns for limbless robots via geometric mechanics

Contact planning is crucial to the locomotion performance of limbless robots. Typically; the pattern by which contact is made and …
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Reconstruction of Backbone Curves for Snake Robots

Snake robots composed of alternating single-axis pitch and yaw joints have many internal degrees of freedom, which make them capable of …
Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Baxi Chong, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers, Daniel I. Goldman, Greg Blekherman, Howie Choset
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Optimizing Coordinate Choice for Locomotion Systems with Toroidal Shape Spaces

In a geometric mechanics framework, the configuration space is decomposed into a shape space and a position space. The internal motion …
Bo Lin, Baxi Chong, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, Enes Aydin, Howie Choset, Daniel I. Goldman, Greg Blekherman
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Bounding The Number of Linear Regions in Local Area for Neural Networks with ReLU Activations

The number of linear regions is one of the distinct properties of the neural networks using piecewise linear activation functions such …
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Tropical optimal transport and Wasserstein distances

We study the problem of optimal transport in tropical geometry and define the Wasserstein-p distances in the continuous metric measure …
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