Research Statement (2024), Research Statement (2021), Research Statement (2018); Research and Publications; Research group — GRAIL.
Research Experience
Prior to joining Northeastern in 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow and senior research associate at Brown University, working with Stefanie Tellex.
Education
Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, advised by Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez; B.S. (with Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, both in 2009.
Background
Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, leading the Generalizable Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (GRAIL). His research focuses on learning, representing, estimating, and using knowledge about the world that an autonomous robot may find useful. His research agenda is to identify and learn intermediate state representations that enable effective robot learning and planning, and therefore enable robot generalization. More broadly, he is interested in, and follows many topics within, the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.