Scholar
Jonathan Francis
Google Scholar ID: 7CLS0LwAAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,487
H-index
19
i10-index
33
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- August 2025: Two papers accepted to CoRL 2025: 'KineSoft' and 'GraphEQA'
- July 2025: Paper 'SEAL' accepted by RA-L
- June 2025: Paper 'MOSAIC' accepted to ICCV 2025
- May 2025: Paper 'Your Learned Constraint is Secretly a Backward Reachable Tube' accepted to RLC 2025
- April 2025: Paper 'Human2LocoMan' accepted to RSS 2025
- January 2025: Papers 'CaDRE' (ICRA 2025) and 'STRAP' (ICLR 2025) accepted
- November 2024: Work on volumetric deformable object manipulation named 'Best Oral Paper Finalist' at IEEE Humanoids 2024
- November 2024: Paper 'RoPotter' accepted to IEEE Humanoids 2024
- October 2024: Paper on vision-language models for traffic accident understanding received 'Best Paper Runner-up' at IEEE IAVVC 2024
- January 2024: Paper on multi-sensory object representations accepted to ICRA 2024
- March 2025: Named Bosch Expert in Robot Learning and Multimodal ML
- Active organizer and committee member for workshops at CoRL, RSS, ICRA, Humanoids, etc.
Background
- Senior Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Courtesy Faculty in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
- Robotics Research Program Lead at the Carnegie Bosch Institute, CMU.
- Leads the Robot Learning Lab (RLL) at BCAI North America, focusing on autonomous systems that learn safe, robust, multimodal, and transferrable representations of the world.
- Research emphasizes dexterous manipulation for manufacturing via robot foundation models and cross-embodiment transfer representation learning.
