Publications: 'Vocal Sandbox: Continual Learning and Adaptation for Situated Human-Robot Collaboration' (CoRL 2024); 'OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model' (2024). Additionally, involved in projects such as Voltron, with open-source code and models available.
Research Experience
Currently a robotics intern at Toyota Research Institute working on large behavior models; Former research intern at Hugging Face focusing on multimodal pretraining and vision-language models; Previously a resident at Facebook AI Research in New York, collaborating with Rob Fergus, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, and Arthur Szlam on grounded language understanding; Also completed two summer internships at Bloomberg Research under the mentorship of Gideon Mann and David Rosenberg.
Education
PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, co-advised by Dorsa Sadigh and Percy Liang; Undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Literary Arts from Brown University, advised by Eugene Charniak and Stefanie Tellex.
Background
Research Interests: Robot learning and natural language processing. Focuses on developing foundation models for robotic perception and control, as well as deploying adaptive robots for real-world collaboration.