<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://j4mzzy.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://j4mzzy.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-06-03T04:53:23+00:00</updated><id>https://j4mzzy.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Yichen (James) Zhao</title><subtitle>Yichen (James) Zhao is a third year PhD student studying Robotics and Mathematics in the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include perception and motion planning, dynamical systems, distributed optimization, non-convex optimization, Riemannian optimization, Morse theory, sheaf theory, and algebraic topology.</subtitle><author><name>Yichen (James) Zhao</name><email>yzhao654@gatech.edu</email><uri>https://ivalab.gatech.edu/</uri></author></feed>