Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), leading the PEARLS Lab
Research Scientist at NVIDIA, focused on scaling embodied AI
Motivated by how to endow learning agents with the ability to understand and generate contextually relevant natural language to achieve goals
Research lies at the intersection of Machine Learning (especially Reinforcement Learning) and Natural Language Processing
Core research theme: building trustworthy and responsible language-based AI agents that (1) interactively gather and align to human preferences via feedback, and (2) build and use neurosymbolic world models to guide actions in grounded environments