About

👋🏻 Hi! I’m an incoming CS PhD student at Stanford University, advised by Prof Fei-Fei Li as part of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. Currently, I am also a research intern at NVIDIA Cosmos Lab working with VP Ming-Yu Liu.

Previously, I’ve spent time at Ai2 PRIOR and Ai2 Robotics. I obtained my BS degree from the University of Washington, where I double majored in computer science (with honors) and statistics, and minored in mathematics. I was privileged to be advised by Prof Ranjay Krishna, Prof Ali Farhadi, Prof Dieter Fox, and Prof Jenq-Neng Hwang. I was also grateful to be mentored by and collaborate with Prof Jiafei Duan and Dr Ying Jin.

My research interests lie broadly in robot learning. In particular, I focus on developing foundation models for robotic manipulation that are deployable in the real world and unlock novel capabilities.

🔥 News

• [2026/06] Our paper MolmoB0T: Large-Scale Simulation Enables Zero-Shot Manipulation won Best Paper Awards at SDRL, VLA Pipeline, and Beyond Teleoperation @ ICRA 2026.
• [2026/05] We are launching MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-World Deployment.
• [2026/03] We are launching MolmoB0T: Large-Scale Simulation Enables Zero-Shot Manipulation.
• [2026/02] Our paper Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative Reasoning has been preprinted to arXiv.
• [2026/01] Our paper MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space has been accepted to ICRA 2026.
• [2025/12] Honored to be selected as the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Awardee 2026 (8 Awardees in North America)!
• [2025/10] Our paper MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space has been featured by State of AI Report 2025.
• [2025/10] Our paper FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models has been preprinted to arXiv.
• [2025/09] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to RemembeRL @ CoRL 2025 and selected as Best Paper Award.
• [2025/09] Our paper MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space has been selected selected as Best Paper Award Nominee and Runner-up at Data and Rational Robots @ CoRL 2025.
• [2025/08] We are launching MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space.
• [2025/07] Received the UW CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship 2025.
• [2025/06] Received the UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention 2025 (2nd Place).
• [2025/05] Our paper PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing has been preprinted to arXiv.
• [2025/05] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted to ICML 2025.
• [2025/04] Our paper SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation has been featured by AI Index Report 2025.

📑 Publications

💬 Invited Talks

• [2026/06] Remote talk at Cohere Labs on MolmoAct2 hosted by Cole Harrison.
• [2026/06] Remote talk at RoboPaper Podcast on MolmoAct2 hosted by Dr Chris Paxton.
• [2026/05] In-person talk at UW RAIVN Lab Group Meeting on MolmoAct2 hosted by Prof Ranjay Krishna.
• [2026/05] Remote talk at The AI Talks on MolmoAct2 hosted by Ziqi Huang.
• [2025/08] In-person talk at Genesis AI on MolmoAct hosted by Dr Johnson Wang.
• [2025/08] In-person talk at Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics on MolmoAct hosted by Ted Xiao.
• [2025/08] Remote talk at RoboPaper Podcast on MolmoAct hosted by Dr Chris Paxton.
• [2025/08] Remote talk at UW SyFI Lab on MolmoAct hosted by Prof Baris Kasikci.
• [2025/08] Remote talk at Intel RealSense on MolmoAct hosted by VP Chris Matthieu.
• [2025/06] In-person talk at Allen Institute for AI Company Meeting on MolmoAct hosted by Prof Ali Farhadi.
• [2025/06] In-person talk at FMEA @ CVPR 2025 Oral Presentation on SAM2Act hosted by Prof Manling Li.
• [2025/04] Remote talk at WRL @ ICLR 2025 Oral Presentation on SAM2Act.
• [2025/02] In-person talk at UW RAIVN Lab Group Meeting on SAM2Act hosted by Prof Ranjay Krishna.
• [2025/02] In-person talk at UW RSE Lab Group Meeting on SAM2Act hosted by Prof Dieter Fox.

📖 Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 Workshops
  • Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 Workshops
  • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026
  • International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026
  • Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026

• Workshop & Challenge Organizer

  • Workshop on 3D Vision Language Models for Robotic Manipulation (Robo-3DVLM) at CVPR 2025
  • Workshop on Embodied Reasoning in Action (ERA) at CVPR 2026
  • Robotic Origami Challenge at IROS 2026

• Teaching Assistant & Grader

  • UW CSE 493G1/599G1: Deep Learning (Undergrad/Grad, Spring 2025, Winter 2026)
  • UW STAT 311: Elements of Statistical Methods (Undergrad, Autumn 2025, Winter 2026)

🎓 Education

Stanford University

Sep 2026 - Jun 2031 (expected)

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

Advised by Prof Fei-Fei Li

University of Washington

Sep 2022 - Mar 2026

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Minor in Mathematics

• GPA: 3.98/4.00, Magna Cum Laude, Dean’s Lists

💼 Industrial Experiences

NVIDIA

PhD Research Intern, Jun 2026 - Present

• Worked with the Cosmos Lab
• Mentored by VP Ming-Yu Liu

Allen Institute for AI

Student Researcher, Nov 2025 - Jun 2026

Student Collaborator, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025

• Worked with the PRIOR team and the Robotics team
• Mentored by Prof Ranjay Krishna, Prof Ali Farhadi, Prof Dieter Fox, and Prof Jiafei Duan

🏅 Awards

• Best Paper Awards at SDRL, VLA Pipeline, and Beyond Teleoperation @ ICRA 2026 (with MolmoB0T)
• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Awardee 2026 (8 Awardees in North America)
• Best Paper Award Nominee and Runner-up at Data and Rational Robots @ CoRL 2025 (with MolmoAct)
• Best Paper Award at RemembeRL @ CoRL 2025 (with SAM2Act)
• UW CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship 2025
• UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention 2025 (2nd Place, with SAM2Act)