I am an Assistant Professor at Duke University where I lead the General Robotics Lab. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia Univesity with Hod Lipson. My research focuses on Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I am also broadly interested in AI for Science.
I am interested in developing "generalist robots" that learn, act and improve by perceiving and interacting with the complex and dynamic world. Ultimately, I hope that robots and machines can equip with high-level cognitive skills to assist people and unleash human creativity.
News
- We have several openings for PhD students (ME, ECE, CS) and one Postdoc position. Please see Join Us to apply!
- Our Cover Article on discovering governing variables of dynamical systems from videos is published at Nature Computational Science!
- Our Cover Article on robot visual self-modeling is published at Science Robotics!
- I will be joining Duke University as a tenure-track assistant professor in July 2022!
- Generate visual scenes from sound! Checkout our CoRL 2021 paper Boombox and dataset.
- Started my internship at AllenAI PRIOR team.
- The robot smiled back! Checkout our ICRA 2021 paper and the story from Columbia Engineering.
- Robot can see from another robot's point of view to play hide and seek! Checkout our ICRA 2021 paper.
- Label representation matters! Video illustration of our ICLR 2021 paper where neural network speaks.
- Visual Hide and Seek won ALife 2020 Best Poster Award.
- Understanding human intentionality from videos. We release the Oops! dataset and our CVPR 2020 paper.
- Thank you Facebook Research for awarding our PyRobot Proposal.
Videos
My research is sometimes best described by brief videos and animations. Here are some of them. If you are interested in more details, please see full publication list.
