Biography
Hi! I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme, and I work closely with Prof. Daniel Seita. I study 3D representations for sample-efficient robotic bimanual manipulation.
I’ve interned at Google DeepMind and Amazon Robotics, and previously earned my M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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- Robotic Bimanual 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
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Publications
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 (CoRL 2025, ICRA 2026, Current)
- External Collaborators: QJ Tsway (Current)
Reviewer
- CoRL 2022 to 2025
- WAFR 2024
- ICRA 2025 to 2026
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)