Kyle Hsu
Scholar

Kyle Hsu

Google Scholar ID: KCdL5B0AAAAJ
Stanford University
artificial intelligencemachine learningrobotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,226
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
14
 
Publications
18
 
Co-authors
14
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Disentanglement via latent quantization, NeurIPS 2023
  • Tripod: three complementary inductive biases for disentangled representation learning, ICML 2024
  • Range, not independence, drives modularity in biologically inspired representations, ICLR 2025
  • Flow to the mode: mode-seeking diffusion autoencoders for state-of-the-art image tokenization, ICCV 2025
  • Vision-based manipulators need to also see from their hands, ICLR 2022 oral
  • Evaluating real-world robot manipulation policies in simulation, CoRL 2024, DGR@RSS2024 spotlight
  • Unsupervised learning via meta-learning, ICLR 2019
  • Unsupervised curricula for visual meta-reinforcement learning, NeurIPS 2019 spotlight
  • FSPO: few-shot preference optimization of synthetic data in LLMs elicits effective personalization to real users, preprint
  • Multi-layered abstraction-based controller synthesis for continuous-time systems, HSCC 2018
  • Lazy abstraction-based controller synthesis, ATVA 2019 invited paper
Research Experience
  • Senior ML Engineer at Tesla, working on AI for the Optimus project.
Education
  • PhD from Stanford University, advised by Chelsea Finn and Jiajun Wu; supported by a Sequoia Capital Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering and an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral.
Background
  • Research interests include representation learning, robot learning, and few-shot learning. Specializes in AI, particularly working on the Optimus project at Tesla.
Miscellany
  • Bilingual (Taiwanese-Canadian), enjoys skiing, snowboarding, playing Soulslike games, and board games in his free time.