Youngsun Wi
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. I work with Professor Nima Fazeli as a member of Mmintlab. My research is centered on contact-rich manipulations, leveraging multi-modal observations (Vision, Touch, and Language).
Publications
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
Education & Experiences
Research Intern
(Incoming)
Meta A.I.
fall 2024
Research Intern
NVIDIA, Robotics
summer 2024
PhD canditate
U of M, Robotics
2021~ current
Research Intern
Amazon Robotics A.I.
Summer 2022
MS
U of M, ME
2019~2021
Exchange Student,
Gatech, ME
Winter 2017
BSc
KAIST, ME
2014~2019
Recent News
2023 Nov
2023 Mar
2022 May
Volunteering "Workshop on leveraging models for contact-rich manipulation" workshop at 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)
Invited as a speaker for UTokyo workshop -- presented VIRDO and VIRDO++.
Earned PhD Candidacy at the Robotics Department, University Michigan, Ann Arbor!
Awards and Fellowships
2024 Aug
2021 Dec
2021 Sep
2018
2017
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship
Rackham International Student Fellowship
Robotics Department First Year Fellowship
Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest honor by Department of ME at KAIST for distinguished academic excellence
Cho-Chun-Shik Graduate School of Green transportation Research scholarship
Korea National Science and Engineering Scholarship
Korea National Scholarship