Multiple papers accepted to top-tier venues including CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, IEEE T-RO, IEEE RA-L, and IJRR
2025: "Fail2Progress: Learning from Real-World Robot Failures with Stein Variational Inference" accepted to CoRL 2025
2025: "Learning Multimodal Probabilistic Models of Manipulation Skill Effects" accepted to CoRL 2025 LSRW Workshop
2025: "Differentiable GPU-Parallelized Task and Motion Planning" accepted to RSS 2025
20225: "Points2Plans: From Point Clouds to Long-Horizon Plans with Composable Relational Dynamics" accepted to ICRA 2025
2024: "Magnetic Manipulation of Unknown and Complex Conductive Nonmagnetic Objects with Application in the Remediation of Space Debris" published in IJRR
2024: "DextrAH-G: Pixels-to-Action Dexterous Arm-Hand Grasping with Geometric Fabrics" accepted to CoRL 2024
2024: "Position Regulation of a Conductive Nonmagnetic Object with Two Stationary Field Sources" published in IEEE T-RO
2024: Two papers accepted to IROS 2024: "V-PRISM" and "L4KDE"
2024: Three papers accepted to ICRA 2024 on deformable object manipulation, reasoning about unobserved objects, and visual robustness with point clouds
2024: "Pick and Place Pl..." accepted to IEEE RA-L (title incomplete)
Background
Professor at the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah
Affiliated with the University of Utah Robotics Center and the Utah Center for Data Science
Director of the Utah Learning Lab for Manipulation Autonomy (LL4MA Lab)
Research focuses on autonomous learning, planning, and perception for robot manipulation
Particularly interested in enabling robots to autonomously discover and manipulate previously unknown objects