Scholar
Simon Stepputtis
Google Scholar ID: WUQgzsAAAAAJ
Virginia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,149
H-index
17
i10-index
25
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers, including 'ShapeGrasp: Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping with Large Language Models through Geometric Decomposition' (October 2024), 'A Comparison of Imitation Learning Algorithms for Bimanual Manipulation' (September 2024), and more; presented at several international conferences such as ICRA 2024, RSS 2023, etc.
Research Experience
- Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) starting January 2022, collaborating with Prof. Katia Sycara.
Education
- Completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in December 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Heni Ben Amor.
Background
- Research interests include creating intelligent robots and systems that can effectively learn, autonomously adapt to, and operate in unstructured human-centric environments. Starting as an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in Fall 2025.
Miscellany
- Organized multiple workshops, including the Articulate Robots Workshop at RSS 2023 and the TOM4HAT Workshop at IROS 2022.
