Scholar
Tom Silver
Google Scholar ID: CMcsygMAAAAJ
Assistant Professor at Princeton
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,731
H-index
21
i10-index
28
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'FEAST: A Flexible Mealtime Assistance System Towards In-the-Wild Personalization' won Best Paper Award at RSS 2025
- Three papers accepted at CoRL 2025: SAVOR (oral, led by Zhanxin Wu), CLAMP (led by Pranav Thakkar), and PrioriTouch (led by Rishabh Madan)
- Two papers at RSS 2025: 'Bilevel Learning for Bilevel Planning' (led by Bowen Li) and 'FEAST' (led by Rajat Kumar Jenamani)
- Preprint released in May 2025: 'Coloring Between the Lines: Personalization in the Null Space of Planning Constraints'
- Strong advocate for open-source code and open science; all research projects led by him are developed publicly
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University and core faculty member in robotics
- Affiliated with the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
- Directs the Princeton Robot Planning and Learning (PRPL) lab, aiming to develop generalist robots that learn and plan to help people
- Research lies at the intersection of automated planning and machine learning, emphasizing efficient use of limited data and time
- Employs techniques such as task and motion planning, program synthesis, foundation models, reinforcement learning, and neuro-symbolic ML
- Problem-driven, with a strong focus on assistive applications like robot caregiving to empower human independence
Co-authors