I am a Computer Science PhD student at Brown University advised by Prof. Stefanie Tellex and Prof. George Konidaris. My research lives at the intersection of Robotics, Language, and Planning. Broadly, I aim to bridge the gap between abstract human concepts and physical robot behaviors. I am particularly interested in building structural systems (e.g., neuro-symbolic, compositional, and hierarchical) to make these interactions more seamless. Here is a sketch of the framework I proposed. For a deeper dive into my work, feel free to check my thesis proposal.
Before Brown, I earned my M.S. in Robotics at Northeastern University, where I worked with Prof. Lawson Wong on vision-language navigation. I love discussing research ideas and PhD career/application. Please feel free to email me if you’d like to chat!
Outside of the lab, I’m leading a happy life with my girlfriend fiancé wife (!) and my cat in Providence :)
Current Interests:
- Representation & Abstraction Learning: Modeling structured concepts in robotics, including motor skills, object-centric representations, and spatial/temporal relationships.
- Skill Discovery & Composition: Learning reusable skills from unstructured robot demonstrations to efficiently solve novel, long-horizon tasks.
- Language Grounding & Planning: Bridging natural language specification with robot execution through task-level planning.
- Embodied Reasoning: Leveraging large pretrained models (LLMs/VLMs) for commonsense reasoning and decision-making in physical environments.
- Reading manga. Osamu Tezuka is my GOAT. Here is my manga rating page.
- The Binding of Isaac. (1200+ 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 main conference.
- [Jan 26] Our work Task and Skill Planning: Hierarchical Robot Planning with Black-Box Skills is accpeted by ICRA 2026.
- [Nov 25] Passed my thesis proposal titled “Connecting Robotics, Language, and Planning with Symbols” [slides] [video] (Committee: Stefaine Tellex, George Konidaris, Jiayuan Mao).
- [June 25] Our work Least Commitment Planning for the Object Scouting Problem is accpeted by IROS 2025.
- [May 25] Our work SkillWrapper: Generative Predicate Invention for Task-level Planning 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 2021.
- [Sep 21] Our work Natural Language for Human-Robot Collaboration: Problems Beyond Language Grounding is accepted by AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS.