Publications: Includes papers on active acoustic tactile sensing accepted by IROS 2025, optimizing underactuated tentacle robots accepted by IROS 2024, and two papers (on hardware-policy co-design and learning human-in-the-loop policy) accepted by ICRA 2024. Academic Activities: Delivered invited talks at several events such as the CAIT 2025 Spring Symposium and MIT CSL Seminar.
Research Experience
Currently a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon Robotics and Stanford University (the CogAI group), working with Professor Jiajun Wu. Previously a member of the Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) Lab and the Columbia Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (now REAL@Stanford). Worked as a research assistant at the Robotic Embedded System Laboratory (RESL) during his time at USC.
Education
PhD: Columbia University, Computer Science, Advisors: Professors Matei Ciocarlie and Shuran Song; Master's: University of Southern California, Advisor: Professor Gaurav Sukhatme.
Background
Research Interests: Robotic manipulation, hardware design, learning from multi-sensor data, human-in-the-loop policy learning. Specialization: Computer Science.
Miscellany
Personal Interests: Cooking, brewing coffee, playing with his dog Nova.