About
Hey there! I'm a Computer Science PhD student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), lucky to be co-advised by Prof. Daniel J. Szafir and Prof. Gedas Bertasius, and to work closely with Prof. Mingyu Ding. Before coming to UNC, I earned my Master's degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech), where I got to work with Prof. Matthew Gombolay and had the chance to collaborate with Prof. Greg Turk.
I have also spent time in industry research. At Meta Reality Labs Research I worked with my manager Chuan Qin, alongside Yuan Tian, Ziyi Kou, Eric Whitmire, and Li Guan. Earlier in 2026, I was at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where Diego Romeres was my manager and I worked closely with Siddarth Jain, Chiori Hori, and Toshiaki Koike-Akino.
I've been super fortunate to learn from and work with these amazing folks. Excited for what comes next on this journey!
News
September 2026
Paper accepted at CoRL 2026 Our paper "When Vision Overrides Language: Evaluating and Mitigating Counterfactual Failures in VLAs" has been accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026).
May 2026
Internship at Meta Reality Labs Research I started my internship as a Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Labs Research.
January 2026
Internship at MERL I started my internship as a Research Scientist Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) at Boston :0
September 2025
Paper accepted at T-FR Our paper "Competency-Aware Collaborative Robotic Surface Exploration: A Study at the Mars Desert Research Station" accepted at IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR).
June 2025
Paper accepted at IROS 2025 Our paper "Rebot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis" has been accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025.
June 2025
Paper accepted at RA-L Our paper "BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long-Horizon Task" has been accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
January 2025
Paper accepted at HRI 2025 Our paper "Supporting Long-Horizon Tasks in Human-Robot Collaboration by Aligning Intentions via Augmented Reality" accepted at ACM/IEEE HRI 2025.
October 2024
Presented at IROS 2024 Presented our work on safe learning from demonstrations at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi.
January 2024
Paper accepted at HRI 2024 Our paper on augmented reality for robot learning from demonstration has been accepted at ACM/IEEE HRI 2024.