Service
Peer reviewer for ICRA, IROS, CoRL, and RA-L. Co-organized the NeuRL Robot Manipulation Workshop at CoRL 2023.
Reviewer
- 2027: ICRA
- 2026: CoRL, IROS, RA-L
- 2025: CoRL, IROS, ICRA
- 2024: IROS, ICRA, RA-L
- 2021: ML Reproducibility Challenge (RC)
Organizer
Volunteer
- CG Week & SoCG 2023
- NAACL Reproducibility Track 2022
- CyPhySS 2019
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant at UT Dallas across 11 semesters and 11 course offerings (2022–2026).
Graduate
- CS 6301
- CS 6384
- CS 6363
- CS 6360
Undergraduate
- CS 4361
- CS 4391
- CS 3377
- CS/SE 4348
- CS/CE 4337
- CS 3305
- CE 4348
Talks
Talks on research papers from the literature. 🏆 = best paper, 🎖️ = nominated.
IRVL Reading Group
- Robot Self-Improvement via Human-Video Dynamics Models Fall 2026
- R+X: Retrieval and Execution from Everyday Human Videos Spring 2025
- 🏆 LAPA: Latent Action Pretraining from Videos Fall 2024
- 🏆 Distilled Feature Fields Enable Few-Shot Language-Guided Manipulation Spring 2024
- 🎖️ MimicPlay: Long-Horizon Imitation Learning by Watching Human Play Fall 2023
- Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks Spring 2022
Coursework
- GPT: Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training DL for NLP
- [Re:] Image partitioning into convex polygons Computational Geometry
Blog
Notes from the trenches — engineering fixes, case studies, and PhD life. All posts →
- Remapping the Copilot key to Ctrl on Ubuntu 22.04 Jun 2026
- Save raw depth as JPEG or PNG? Dec 2024
- Setting Up a Wi-Fi Hotspot on Boot for Your Robot Dec 2024
- Using Docker for Academic Research Jul 2022
Resources
Courses and lectures I keep learning from — and recommend to anyone getting into robot learning and AI agents.
Courses
- CMU 11-768: AI Agents (Fall 2026) — lecture videos
- Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents — lecture videos
- ETH Zürich: Robot Learning
- Stanford CS224R: Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Stanford CME296: Diffusion & Large Vision Models — lecture videos
- The Post-Training Course (w/ Nathan Lambert's RLHF Book) — lecture videos