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 student researcher working with the PRIOR team and the Robotics team at the Allen Institute for AI.

Previously, 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, and Prof Jenq-Neng Hwang. I was also grateful to be mentored by and collaborate with Prof Dieter Fox, Dr Jiafei Duan, and Dr Ying Jin.

My research interests lie broadly in robot learning. In particular, I focus on developing generalist robotic manipulation policies that leverage strong priors, by optimizing both the data curation and model architectures.

🔥 News

• [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 accepted to Rational Robots @ CoRL 2025 and selected as Best Paper Award Runner-up.
• [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

• [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

• Workshop 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

• 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, Dean’s Lists, Magna Cum Laude, Best Senior Thesis Award Honorable Mention, CSE Award for Excellence Scholarship, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Awardee

💼 Industrial Experiences

• Allen Institute for AI

  Student Researcher, Nov 2025 - Present

  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 Dr Jiafei Duan

• Nokia Shanghai Bell

  Research Engineer Intern, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Mentored by Dr Quan Wang

🏅 Awards

• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Awardee 2026 (8 Awardees in North America)
• Best Paper Award at RemembeRL @ CoRL 2025
• Best Paper Award Runner-up at Rational Robots @ CoRL 2025
• 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%)