- Received the Teaching Excellence Award 2024 at Fulton Schools of Engineering.
- Published a paper at the Conference on Language Modelling 2024 titled 'Task Success is not Enough'.
- Published four new papers at IROS 2024:
- Diff-Control: A Stateful Diffusion-based Policy for Imitation Learning
- SiSCo: Signal Synthesis for Effective Human-Robot Communication via Large Language Models
- Repairing Neural Networks for Safety in Robotic Systems using Predictive Models
- Active Learning for Forward/Inverse Kinematics of Redundantly-driven Flexible Tensegrity Manipulator
- Published four new papers at IROS 2023.
- Published a paper at ICRA 2023 titled 'Learning and Blending Robot Hugging Behaviors in Time and Space'.
- Received a Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS 2022 Robot Learning Workshop.
- Published two new papers at CoRL 2022.
- Received the ASU FSE - Top 5% Teaching Award in 2021.
Research Experience
- Worked with the team at Google DeepMind, demonstrating how to achieve human-level robot table tennis.
- Collaborated with Google X/Intrinsic on a paper titled 'A System for Imitation Learning of Contact-Rich Bimanual Manipulation'.
- Organized the ICRA 2021 workshop on 'Curious Robots'.
Background
Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Faculty at Google DeepMind. Research focuses on advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
- Interests include organizing academic workshops and giving invited talks.
- Has collaborations and interactions with institutions such as Samsung Forum, Stanford, USC, Cornell, and CMU.