I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University advised by Prof. Stefanie Tellex and Prof. George Konidaris. My interest lies in the intersection of Robotics, Language, and Planning. My goal is to bridge human concept and robot behaviors with structural systems (neuro-symbolic, compositional, hierarchical, etc.) I believe that The Bitter Lesson might be right for the past, but doesn’t tell us about the future. I enjoy talking with people regarding research ideas and PhD career/application. Please feel free to email me if you would like to talk!
Previously, I obtained my M.S degree in Robotics at Northeastern University, working with Prof. Lawson Wong on the topic of vision-language navigation. I had a background in Mechanical Engineering, while I later found my interest in deep learning & robotics and transferred to the field of robotics in 2020, after finishing my internship at Analogic.
Currently, I’m leading a happy life with my girlfriend fiancé wife (!) and my cat in Providence :)
Current Interests:
- Representation and abstraction learning for different “concepts” in robotics, e.g., motor skills, objects, spatial & temporal relationships.
- Skill dicovery and skill composition from robot demonstrations.
- Language grounding in robot learning and task-level planning.
- Leveraging large pretrained models for embodied reasoning.
- Reading manga. Osamu Tezuka is my GOAT. Here is my manga rating page.
- The Binding of Isaac. (1000+ hrs on record)
- (Last updated: Apr 26)
News:
- [Apr 26] Our work Language Model as Planner and Formalizer under Constraints is accpeted by ACL 2026.
- [Jan 26] Our work Task and Skill Planning: Hierarchical Robot Planning with Black-Box Skills is accpeted by ICRA 2026.
- [Nov 25] Our work Least Commitment Planning for the Object Scouting Problem is accpeted by IROS 2025.
- [Nov 25] Passed my thesis proposal titled “Connecting Robotics, Language, and Planning with Symbols” [slides] [video] (Committee: Stefaine Tellex, George Konidaris, Jiayuan Mao).
- [May 25] Our work SkillWrapper: Skill Abstraction in the Era of Foundation Model won Best Poster Award at Language and Semantics of Task and Motion Planning workshop at ICRA 2025 for 💸$500💸.
- [Mar 24] Passed my research comp defense. I’m now a PhD candidate!
- [Jan 24] Our work Plug in the Safety Chip: Enforcing Constraints for LLM-driven Robot Agents is accpeted by ICRA 2024.
- [Jan 24] I’m hosting Brown Robotics lab talks this year!
- [Sep 23] Our work Grounding Complex Natural Language Commands for Temporal Tasks in Unseen Environments is accepted by CoRL 2023.
- [Sep 22] Starting my PhD journey at Brown University! 🚀
- [Nov 21] Finished my master thesis defense titled Improving Instruction Generation for Vision-Language Navigation by Reward Designing.
- [Oct 21] Our work GASCN: Graph Attention Shape Completion Network is accepted by 3DV.
- [Sep 21] Our work Natural Language for Human-Robot Collaboration: Problems Beyond Language Grounding is accepted by AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS.