About

👋🏻 Hi! I’m an undergraduate student and researcher at the University of Washington (UW). I double major in computer science (with honors) and statistics, with a minor in mathematics. I am also a student collaborator working with the Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research (PRIOR) team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2).

At UW, I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof Ranjay Krishna at the Reasoning, AI, and VisioN (RAIVN) Lab and Prof Dieter Fox at the Robotics and State Estimation (RSE) Lab in UW CSE. Before that, I was advised by Prof Jenq-Neng Hwang at the Information Processing Lab (IPL) in UW ECE. I am also pleased to be mentored by Dr Jiafei Duan and Dr Ying Jin. At Ai2 PRIOR, I am fortunate to be mentored by Prof Ranjay Krishna and Dr Jiafei Duan, and sponsored by Dr Rose Hendrix.

My research interests are broadly in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and embodied AI. I am especially passionate about robot learning, imitation learning, behavior cloning, and foundation models for robotics.

I am now actively seeking PhD positions for fall 2026 and any other opportunities. Feel free to reach out!

🔥 News

• [Aug 2025] We are launching MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space.
• [Jul 2025] Received the UW CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship 2025.
• [Jun 2025] Received the UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention 2025 (2nd Place).
• [May 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to FMEA @ CVPR 2025 and selected as Oral Presentation (Perfect Scores).
• [May 2025] Our paper PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing has been preprinted to arXiv.
• [May 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to ICML 2025.
• [Apr 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been featured by AI Index Report 2025.
• [Feb 2025] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to WRL @ ICLR 2025 and selected as Oral Spotlight (Award Nomination).

📑 Selected Publications

* Equal Contribution as First Authors    † Equal Contribution as Second Authors    ‡ Equal Contribution as Advisors

📖 Professional Services

• Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 Workshops
  • Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 Workshops
• Workshop Organizer
  • Workshop on 3D Vision Language Models for Robotic Manipulation (Robo-3DVLM) at CVPR 2025
• Teaching Assistant
  • CSE 493G1/599G1: Deep Learning (Spring 2025, Undergrad/Grad)

🎓 Education

• University of Washington, 2022 - 2026 (Expected)
  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors
  Bachelor of Science in Statistics
  Minor in Mathematics
  • GPA: 3.98/4.00, Dean’s Lists, Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention, CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship

💼 Industrial Experience

• Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Apr 2025 - Present
  Student Collaborator
  • Worked with the Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research (PRIOR) Team
  • Mentored by Prof Ranjay Krishna and Dr Jiafei Duan, Sponsored by Dr Rose Hendrix
• Nokia Shanghai Bell, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
  Research Engineer Intern
  • Mentored by Dr Quan Wang, Explored on COSMIC Report Generation

🏅 Awards

• UW CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship 2025
• UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention 2025 (2nd Place)
• Kaggle Competitions Expert (Top 0.85% Highest)
• Kaggle - LLM Science Exam, Silver Medal (Top 4%) [Website]
• RSNA Screening Mammography Breast Cancer Detection, Solo Silver Medal (Top 5%)