Bowen Tan

Bowen Tan

NYU · Honors Mathematics & Computer Science

Open to PhD positions · Fall 2027

I'm an undergraduate at New York University studying Mathematics and Computer Science, advised by Lerrel Pinto. My research focuses on robot learning and scalable imitation learning systems, with particular interest in real-world manipulation. I am actively looking for PhD positions starting Fall 2027.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat or collaborate.

Research Interests

Robot Learning · Imitation Learning · Manipulation · Computer Vision · World Model

Publications

Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations

Gaoyue Zhou*, Zichen Jeff Cui*, Ada Langford, Bowen Tan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto

arXiv preprint, 2026

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Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, Haritheja Etukuru, Bowen Tan, …, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah

RSS 2026

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