Recipient of a six-year Graduate Fellowship for STEM Diversity and a two-year Berkeley Fellowship
Honorable Mention for Best Paper at UAI 2017
RSS 2022 Pioneer
Published work at premier robotics conferences including ICRA, IROS, RSS, and CoRL
Four papers accepted to CoRL 2025 on topics including VLM benchmarking, data augmentation, robots in granular media, and robot learning from a single image
Miscellany
Encourages personalized emails from students interested in research; discourages mass emails
Strong advocate for international students and global collaboration in robotics and AI
Willing to provide recommendation letters for permanent residency applications
Last name pronounced 'say-ta' (two syllables)
Teaches CSCI 545: Introduction to Robotics for master's students