Biography
Hi! I am a PhD candidate advised by Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme at the University of Southern California (USC). I also work closely with Prof. Daniel Seita. My research interest lies in the fields of imitation learning and reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation. My research focuses on data-efficient, vision-based bimanual manipulation. Prior to joining USC, I completed my master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- Robotic Manipulation
- Imitation Learning
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
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PhD in Computer Science (Robotics & AI), Ongoing
University of Southern California (USC)
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MS in Computer Science, 2023
University of Southern California (USC)
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MS in Computer Science, 2016
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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BSc in Computer Science, 2014
University of Wisonsin-Madison
News
Research
Experience
- See Publications for details.
- Targeted bin picking research (robotic manipulation).
- Published three papers as first author: Distilling Motion Planner Augmented Policies into Visual Control Policies for Robot Manipulation, CoRL 2021, Learning Deformable Object Manipulation from Expert Demonstrations, RA‐L + IROS 2022, Learning Robot Manipulation from Cross-Morphology Demonstration, CoRL 2023.
- Conducted computer vision research in topics including object detection and instance segmentation.
Awards
August 2023 - August 2024.
Services
Mentoring
- USC Masters Students: Sicheng He (CoRL 2024), Hanwen Fan (Current)
- USC Undergraduate Students: Jason Chen (Current)
- External Collaborators: QJ Tsway (Current)
Reviewer
- CoRL 2022 to 2024
- WAFR 2024
- ICRA 2025
Teaching Assistant at USC
- 2025/01 to 2025/05: CSCI 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines (Master’s Level)
- 2024/08 to 2024/12: CSCI 545: Introduction to Robotics (Master’s Level)