2024 Pioneers

We are pleased to announce the 30 PhD students, postdocs, and industry research scientists who have been accepted to this year's Pioneers Workshop.

[random sorting--the most computationally inexpensive way to sort, plus it reduces bias]

Jialei Shi

Imperial College London, UK

Understanding Compliance Properties of Soft Continuum Robots: From Analytical Model to Model-based Control [PDF]

Alap Kshirsagar

TU Darmstadt, Germany

Robot Arms in Action: Manipulation, Interaction, and Perception [PDF]

Sarah Gillet

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

A Computational Lens to Interaction-Shaping Robotics [PDF]

Ran Tian

UC Berkeley, USA

Towards aligning robot behavior with human values [PDF]

Wenzhong Yan

University of California Los Angeles, USA

SoftMechs: Embedding Intelligence within Soft Robot Structures [PDF]

Guillermo Castillo

The Ohio State University, USA

Hierarchical Frameworks for Reinforcement Learning-based Robust Bipedal Locomotion [PDF]

Mingi Jeong

Dartmouth College, USA

Robust Perception and Navigation of Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Challenging Environments [PDF]

Niclas Vödisch

University of Freiburg, Germany

Efficient Robot Learning for Perception and Mapping [PDF]

Jason Choi

UC Berkeley, USA

Resolving safety-exploration dilemma for safe robot autonomy [PDF]

Himani Sinhmar

Cornell University, USA

Control with Guarantees for Minimalist Multi-Robotic Systems [PDF]

Lan Wu

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Exploring Probabilistic Distance Fields in Robotics [PDF]

Frederike Dümbgen

Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Canada / WILLOW, Inria Paris, France

Safe and Efficient Estimation for Robotics through the Optimal Use of Resources [PDF]

Mela Coffey

Boston University, USA

Toward Collaborative Human Multi-Robot Teaming [PDF]

Jesus Tordesillas

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Trustworthy High-Speed Navigation for Robot Swarms [PDF]

Jake Welde

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Geometric Methods of Systematic Controller Synthesis for Underactuated Robotic Systems [PDF]

Tabitha Edith Lee

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Causal Robot Learning for Manipulation: Learning and Leveraging Structure for an Open World [PDF]

Chelsea Rose Sidrane

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Safe and Reliable Data-Driven Autonomy [PDF]

Ava Chen

Columbia University, USA

Assisting Impaired Dexterity with User-Driven Robotic Hand Exoskeletons [PDF]

Houston Claure

Yale University, USA

Designing for Fairness in Human-Robot Interactions [PDF]

Fernando E. Casado

Imperial College London, UK

Towards Privacy-Aware and Personalised Assistive Robots: A User-Centred Approach [PDF]

Andi Peng

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Learning Abstractions from Humans [PDF]

Pham Huy Nguyen

EMPA, Switzerland / Imperial College London, UK

Crash Landing onto you: Untethered Soft Aerial Robots for Safe Environmental Interaction, Sensing, and Perching [PDF]

Di Ni

Princeton University, USA

Small-scale Robots: From One to a Swarm [PDF]

Yunlong Song

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Agile Robotics: Optimal Control, Reinforcement Learning, and Differentiable Simulation [PDF]

Siddharth Karamcheti

Stanford University, USA

Language-Driven Learning and Interaction for Collaborative Robotics [PDF]

Shikhar Bahl

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Scaling Robot Learning by Watching Humans [PDF]

Hyungtae Lim

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA / Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Outlier-Robust Long-Term Robotic Mapping Leveraging Ground Segmentation [PDF]

Ajay Sathya

WILLOW, Inria Paris, France

Constrained Dynamics Simulation: More With Less [PDF]

Quan Luu

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Multimodal Large-scale Soft Sensing Skin with Tactile, Proximity and Thermal Display toward Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]

Yixi Cai

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Towards Efficient LiDAR Mapping for Robotics [PDF]

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