| Jun, 2026 | Our paper SimToolReal has been accepted to RSS 2026 and won a Best Poster award at the Dexterous Manipulation Workshop at ICRA 2026! SimToolReal learns an object-centric policy for zero-shot dexterous tool manipulation. |
| May, 2026 | I am organizing the Beyond Teleoperation workshop at ICRA 2026, imagining a future where robots are trained without any teleoperation data. |
| Oct, 2025 | Gave invited talks on “Moving Beyond Teleoperation: Robot Learning from Human Videos” at the University of Michigan’s Computation HRI course (course link), the Robotics Mobility Team at NVIDIA, and the Foundation Models Team at the RAI Institute. |
| Aug, 2025 | Our paper X-Sim received an oral presentation at CoRL 2025 and a Best Paper (runner-up) award at the EgoAct Workshop at RSS 2025. X-Sim trains real‑world image‑based robot policies entirely in simulation, without any teleoperation data. |
| Apr, 2025 | Cornell Chronicle featured our ICRA 2025 paper on RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution): “Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-tos.” |
| Oct, 2024 | Gave invited talks on “Transferring Collaborative Behaviors from Human-Human Teams” at RPM Lab, University of Minnesota and RobIn Lab, UT Austin. |
| May, 2024 | Released MOSAIC, a year-long collaborative effort combining multiple foundation models to build a multi-robot collaborative cooking system. MOSAIC won the Best Paper award at the VLMNM workshop and the Best Poster at the MoMa workshop @ ICRA 2024! |
| Sep, 2023 | Excited to release the Collaborative Manipulation Dataset (CoMaD)! CoMaD captures over 6 hours of motion data from 14 unique users involving both human-human and human-robot (Franka robot arm) interactions in a kitchen setting. |