I am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. I work with Professor Nima Fazeli as a member of Mmintlab. My research focuses on representation learning for robotic manipulation, leveraging multi-modal observations (vision, touch, and language). Previously, I interned at FAIR Robotics, NVIDIA Robotics, and Amazon Robotics AI.
University of Michigan, PhD canditate ,2021~
NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab, Research Intern, 2024
University of Michigan, MS , 2019-2021
KAIST, BSc, 2014-2019
Meta FAIR, Research Intern, 2024-2025
Amazon Robotics A.I., Applied Scientist Intern, 2022
Georgia Institue of Technology, Exchange Student, 2017
Youngsun Wi, Jessica Yin, Elvis Xiang, Akash Sharma, Jitendra Malik, Mustafa Mukadam, Nima Fazeli*, Tess Hellebrekers*
Jessica Yin, Haozi Qi*, Youngsun Wi*, Sayantan Kundu, Mike Lambeta, William Yang, Changhao Wang, Tingfan Wu, Jitendra Malik, Tess Hellebrekers
Neural Inverse Source Problem
Youngsun Wi, Jayjun Lee, Miquel Oller, Nima Fazeli
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
CALAMARI: Contact-Aware and Language conditioned spatial Action MApping for contact-RIch manipulation
Youngsun Wi, Mark Van der Merwe, Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Nima Fazeli
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
Integrated Object Deformation and Contact Patch Estimation from Visuo-Tactile Feedback
Mark Van der Merwe, Youngsun Wi, Dmitry Berenson, Nima Fazeli
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2023
VIRDO++: Real-World, Visio-Tactile Dynamics And Perception of Deformable Objects
Youngsun Wi, Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Nima Fazeli
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022
VIRDO: VISIO-TACTILE Implicit Representations of Deformable Objects
Youngsun Wi, Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Nima Fazeli
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
2025 Oct: Invited talk at KAST Mechanical Engineering (hosted by prof. Haewon Park)
2025 Sep: Invited talk at RLLAB@Yonsei (hosted by prof. Youngwoon Lee)
2025 Feb: Invited talk at Real@Stanford (hosted by prof. Shuran Song)
2023 Nov: Volunteering "Workshop on leveraging models for contact-rich manipulation" workshop at 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)
2023 Mar: Invited as a speaker for UTokyo workshop -- presented VIRDO and VIRDO++.
2022 May: Earned PhD Candidacy at the Robotics Department, University Michigan, Ann Arbor!
2024 Aug: Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship
2021 Dec: Rackham International Student Fellowship
2021 Sep: Robotics Department First Year Fellowship
2018: Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest honor by Department of ME at KAIST for distinguished academic excellence
2017: Cho-Chun-Shik Graduate School of Green transportation Research scholarship
2016 Mar -2017 Dec : Korea National Science and Engineering Scholarship
2014 Mar - 2015 Dec: Korea National Scholarship
