I am a Senior Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. I am also an Adjunct Faculty in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Robotics Research Lead in the Carnegie Bosch Institute at CMU.

I lead the Robot Learning Lab (RLL) at BCAI, focused on developing autonomous systems that learn safe, robust, multimodal, and transferrable representations of the world and are therefore capable of acquiring, adapting, and improving their own skills/behavior when deployed to diverse scenarios.

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Language Technologies Institute, in the School of Computer Science at CMU (while dual-affiliated with Bosch Research Pittsburgh), working with Jean Oh and Eric Nyberg. Before that, I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, in the College of Engineering at CMU.

Email  |  Scholar  |  LinkedIn  |  Github

Recent News

• 2025 May: Our paper, Your Learned Constraint is Secretly a Backward Reachable Tube , has been accepted to RLC 2025
• 2025 April: Our paper, Human2LocoMan: Learning Versatile Quadrupedal Manipulation with Human Pre-Training , has been accepted to RSS 2025
• 2025 March: I am chairing the Safe Control 1 session at ICRA 2025 — see you there!
• 2025 March: I am co-lead organizing the 2nd Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (SemRob) at RSS 2025
• 2025 March: I am co-organizing the 1st Workshop on Robot Evaluation (RoboEval) at RSS 2025
• 2025 March: I was named a Bosch Expert in Robot Learning and Multimodal ML
• 2025 Febrary: Serving as an AC at CoRL 2025 and an AE at UR 2025
• 2025 January: Our paper, CaDRE: Controllable and Diverse Generation of Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios using Real-World Trajectories , has been accepted to ICRA 2025
• 2025 January: Our paper, STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning , has been accepted to ICLR 2025
• 2024 December: I am co-organizing the 1st Workshop on Acoustic Representations for Robotics (RoboAcoustics) at ICRA 2025
• 2024 November: Our work on volumetric deformable object manipulation received the 'Best Oral Paper Finalist' award at IEEE Humanoids 2024 🏆
• 2024 November: Our paper, RoPotter: Toward Robotic Pottery and Deformable Object Manipulation with Structural Priors , has been accepted to IEEE Humanoids 2024
• 2024 October: Our work, Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Scene Graphs for Traffic Accident Understanding , received the 'Best Paper Runner-up' award at IEEE IAVVC 2024 🏆
• 2024 August: I am the lead organizer for the 1st Workshop on Lifelong Learning for Home Robots (LLHomeRobots) at CoRL 2024
• 2024 June: Serving as an AC at both CoRL 2024 and IAVVC 2024
• 2024 April: I am the lead organizer for the 1st Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (SemRob) at RSS 2024
• 2024 January: Our paper, Learning Unified Multi-Sensory Object Property Representations for Robot Learning via Interactive Perception , has been accepted to ICRA 2024

Yet another Jon Barron website fork. 👌