People
Faculty Members
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Erdem Bıyık
Erdem is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems. His research interests broadly cover robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multi-agent systems. He is especially interested in developing algorithms that enable robots to efficiently learn from various forms of human feedback. |
PhD Students
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Anthony Liang
(Co-advised with Stephen Tu)
Anthony is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in leveraging human and learned priors for improving RL training efficiency and generalization. He is also interested in meta-RL and generative models with applications in robotics. |
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Pavel Czempin
Pavel is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He works on improving reinforcement learning from human feedback for large pretrained models and unsupervised learning from videos for sequential decision making. |
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Yigit Korkmaz
Yigit is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is interested in robot learning from various forms of human feedback, including explicit forms such as demonstrations and comparisons, and more implicit forms like gestures. |
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Yutai Zhou
Yutai is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. He is broadly interested in inverse reinforcement learning from human preferences and imitation learning from partially observable data. He is currently keen on learning more about Bayesian deep learning and JAX. |
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Ayano Hiranaka
(Co-advised with Daniel Seita)
Ayano is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department. |
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Raida Karim
(Co-advised with Maja Matarić)
Raida is an incoming PhD student in the Computer Science Department. |
MS Students
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Dhanush Varma
Dhanush is an MS student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. |
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Matthew Hong
Matthew is an MS student in the Computer Science Department. |
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Yusen Luo
Yusen is an MS student in the Computer Science Department. |
Undergraduate Students
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Jaiv Doshi
Jaiv is an undergraduate in the Computer Science Department. |
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Urvi Bhuwania
Urvi is an undergraduate in the Computer Science Department. |
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Kevin Kim
Kevin is an undergrduate in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments. |
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Ashley Lan
Ashley is an undergraduate in the Computer Science and Business Administration Departments. |
Visiting Researchers
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Xinhu Li
Xinhu is a visiting researcher in Lira Lab. |
PhD/Postdoc Alumni
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Jesse Zhang
(Co-advised with Joseph Lim and Jesse Thomason)
PhD, CS (Next: Postdoc at University of Washington) Thesis: " Scaling Robot Adaptation with Large Model Guidance " |
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Ayush Jain
(Co-advised with Joseph Lim)
PhD, CS (Next: Research Scientist at Meta) Thesis: " Decision Making in Complex Action Spaces " |
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Sumedh Sontakke
(Co-advised with Laurent Itti)
PhD, CS (Next: Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics) Thesis: " Foundation Models for Embodied AI " |
Other Alumni
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Zhaojing Yang
MS, CS (Next: PhD at UC San Diego) |
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Jiahui Zhang
MS, EE (Next: PhD at UT Dallas) |
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Miru Jun
Undergraduate, CS (Next: Data Engineer at US Navy) |
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Thomas Reeves
MS, CS (Next: PhD at USC) |