I-Chun (Arthur) Liu

I-Chun (Arthur) Liu

MS CS Student

University of Southern California

Biography

I am a master’s student in computer science at the University of Southern California. I am also a research assistant in the Robotics Embedded Systems Laboratory, advised by Professor Gaurav Sukhatme. My research interests are in deep reinforcement learning, vision, and sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation.

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Interests
  • Robotic Manipulation
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Imitation Learning
Education

  • MS in Computer Science, 2023

    University of Southern California (USC)

  • MS in Computer Science, 2016

    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2014

    University of Wisonsin-Madison

News

[May, 2023] I am incredibly honored to accept the Computer Science Best Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
[Feb, 2023] In summer 2023, I will be working as an Applied Scientist intern at Amazon Robotics.
[July, 2022] One paper on deformable object manipulation is accepted to RA-L and IROS 2022
[May, 2022] One paper is accepted to ICRA 2022 2nd Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects
[Nov, 2021] One paper is accepted to CoRL 2021

Publications

One paper is in submission
Under review.
Learning Deformable Object Manipulation from Expert Demonstrations
In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Gautam Salhotra, I-Chun (Arthur) Liu, Marcus Dominguez-Kuhne, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
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Learning Deformable Object Manipulation from Expert Demonstrations
Distilling Motion Planner Augmented Policies into Visual Control Policies for Robot Manipulation
In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021
I-Chun (Arthur) Liu, Shagun Uppal, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Joseph J. Lim, Peter Englert, Youngwoon Lee
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Distilling Motion Planner Augmented Policies into Visual Control Policies for Robot Manipulation

Research
Experience

 
 
 
 
 
(Incoming) Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Robotics
May 2023 – Aug 2023 MA, United States
  • Manipulation Technologies team.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
University of Southern California, Robotics Embedded Systems Laboratory (RESL)
Jan 2021 – Present Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • My research interests are in deep reinforcement learning, vision, and sim‑to‑real transfer for robotic manipulation.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Academia Sinica, Multimedia Technologies Laboratory
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020 Taipei, Taiwan
  • Conducted computer vision research in topics including object detection, instance segmentation, and loss functions.

Awards

USC 1-Year Fellowship
University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering Aug 2023
Awarded to selected PhD students.
August 2023 - August 2024.
Computer Science Best Research Award
University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering May 2023
MS Award.

Service

Reviewer

  • CoRL 2022, 2023