I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University supervised by Prof. Stefanie Tellex. My interest lies in the intersection of Robotics and Nature Language. My goal is to bridge human mind 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 and my cat in Providence :)
Current Interests:
- Representation learning for different “concepts” in robot learning, e.g., motor skills, temporal dependency, abstraction of events.
- Using natural language to assist robot learning and planning.
- Interpretable intermediate representation for robotic tasks.
- Leveraging the abilities of foundation models through composition for embodied reasoning.
- Reading manga. Osamu Tezuka is my GOAT. Here is my manga rating page.
- (Last updated: 3/30/24)
News:
- [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!
- [Nov 23] Our work Lang2LTL is presented at CoRL and Safety Chip is presented at LangRob workshop.
- [Oct 23] Our work Plug in the Safety Chip: Enforcing Constraints for LLM-driven Robot Agents is accepted by LangRob workshop at CoRL and presented at AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS.
- [Sep 23] Our work Grounding Complex Natural Language Commands for Temporal Tasks in Unseen Environments is accepted by CoRL 2023.
- [Nov 22] Our work Lang2LTL: Translating Natural Language Commands to Temporal Robot Task Specification is accepted by LangRob workshop at CoRL.
- [Sep 22] Starting my PhD journey at Brown University! 🚀
- [Dec 21] Graduated from Northeastern 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.