I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Southern California, where I am co-advised by Prof. Daniel Seita and Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme.
I'm interested in learning for dexterous robot manipulation. Specifically, my research explores how to effectively improve robotic capabilities under resource constraints by making effective use of available data and physical resources.
My ultimate goal is to advance robotic manipulation toward human-level dexterity, enabling robots to learn and adapt effectively.
We propose Geometry-aware Dexterous Pushing and Pulling, a method for
nonprehensile manipulation which frames the problem as
synthesizing and learning pre-contact dexterous hand poses that
lead to effective pushing and pulling.
We propose to train a large combinatorial family of representations organized by scene entities. This hierarchical object decomposition for task-oriented representations permits selectively assembling different representations specific to each task while scaling in representational capacity with the complexity of the scene and the task.
We propose a challenging vision-based extrinsic contact localization task: with only a single RGB-D camera view of a robot workspace, identify when and where an object held by the robot contacts the rest of the environment.
This is the report paper on Workflow Recognition Challenge in MICCAI 2021. I lead the MedAIR team and rank the first over all the 5 rank method in one sub-challenge on multi-modal (videos and kinematics) workflow recognition of robotic surgery videos.
Service
Mentorship: Ethan Foong Conference reviewer: CoRL Workshop reviewer: NeurIPS, ICRA, RSS Teaching Assistant at USC: CSCI 103: Introduction to Programming, Fa25. Teaching Assistant at UPenn: MEAM 5200: Introduction to Robotics, Sp23; CIS 5200: Machine Learning, Fa23; CIS 5190, Applied Machine Learning, Sp24. Fife-Penn Python Club: Instructor in Spring 23 at G.W. Carver High School.
Awards
----PhD---- USC Viterbi School of Engineering Fellowship, 2024 USC WiSE Graduate Top-Off Award(10k$), 2024 CoRL 2024 Travel Grant, 2024 ----Master---- Best Conference Paper Award ICRA, 2024 UPenn MS Outstanding Research Award, 2024 UPenn President Gutmann Leadership Award, 2023 UPenn Summer Internship Award, 2023 Best Paper Award at CoRL LEAP workshop, 2023 CoRL 2023 Travel Grant, 2023 ----Undergrad---- Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship (10 students each year in mainland China, 50k$), 2022 Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province issued by Department of Education of Zhejiang Province, 2022 National Scholarship issued by the Ministry of Education of PRC, 2021 First Prize Scholarship issued by Zhejiang University, 2018-2021