Youngsun Wi
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. I work with Professor Nima Fazeli as a member of the Mmintlab. My research focuses on contact-rich manipulations using multi-modal observations (Vision, Touch, and Language) and deformable object representations.
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
NVIDIA, Robotics
summer 2023
(up-coming)
PhD canditate
U of M, Robotics
2021~ current
Research Intern
Amazon Robotics A.I.
Summer 2022
Masters
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
2021 Dec
2021 Sep
2018
2017
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
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