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Career

· Assistant Professor, Cornell University2025–
· Research Scientist, The AI Institute2024–
· MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University2020–
· BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology2016–
· Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University2016–2022

Publications (25)

Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021
279
cited
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2020
65
cited
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2018
62
cited
CoCo: Online Mixed-Integer Control via Supervised Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021
49
cited
Robust Safety under Stochastic Uncertainty with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
Robotics: Science and Systems · 2023
48
cited
TrajectoTree: Trajectory Optimization Meets Tree Search for Planning Multi-contact Dexterous Manipulation
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2021
40
cited
CATNIPS: Collision Avoidance Through Neural Implicit Probabilistic Scenes
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2023
37
cited
Learning Mixed-Integer Convex Optimization Strategies for Robot Planning and Control
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control · 2020
37
cited
Estimation and Control Using Sampling-Based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
IET Cyper-Phys. Syst.: Theory & Appl. · 2018
20
cited
DROP: Dexterous Reorientation via Online Planning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2024
18
cited
FRoGGeR: Fast Robust Grasp Generation via the Min-Weight Metric
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2023
18
cited
Generative Modeling of Residuals for Real-Time Risk-Sensitive Safety with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2023
15
cited
Bounding Stochastic Safety: Leveraging Freedman’s Inequality With Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
IEEE Control Systems Letters · 2024
14
cited
Input-to-State Stability in Probability
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control · 2023
13
cited
Multi-Robot Assembly Sequencing via Discrete Optimization
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2019
12
cited
Get a Grip: Multi-Finger Grasp Evaluation at Scale Enables Robust Sim-to-Real Transfer
Conference on Robot Learning · 2024
9
cited
Judo: A User-Friendly Open-Source Package for Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control
arXiv.org · 2025
2
cited
Multi-Robot Assembly Scheduling for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon
IEEE Aerospace Conference · 2022
1
cited
PONG: Probabilistic Object Normals for Grasping via Analytic Bounds on Force Closure Probability
arXiv.org · 2023
1
cited
SCOPED: Score-Curvature Out-of-distribution Proximity Evaluator for Diffusion
arXiv.org · 2025
1
cited
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