Research

Research Topics

1. Motion retargeting for humanoid and quadruped robots

   • STMR: Spatio-Temporal Motion Regargeting for Quadruped Robots (T-RO 2025)

   • RMR: Robust Motion Retargeting for Humanoids (IROS 2025)

2. Natural motion generation for legged systems

   • CLIP-Actor-X: Text-driven 4D Human Avatar Generation (TPAMI 2026)

   • CoRe: Text-based Humanoid Motion Synthesis (Humanoid 2025)

3. Human-robot interaction for socially and physically interactive companion robots

   • MASK: Persona-based Human-Robot Interaction using Ambidex (RA-L, ICRA 2025)

   • Turkish Ice Cream Robot: Playful Deceptive Human-Robot Interaction (ICRA 2026)

   • PioneeR: Social-Aware Navigation (ICRA 2026)

   • HandOver: Robot-to-Human Handover (ICRA 2025)

4. Embodied AI for robotics using multimodal foundation models

   • VIM: Unified Motion Reasoning and Generation (ICCV 2025)

5. Dexterous manipulation with robotic hands

   • @RLWRLD: Pouring Milk, Pick and Place, Writing down 

   • SoftHand: Tendon-Driven Soft Hand (IROS 2025)

For interested prospective students

• We seek highly motivated Ph.D. students interested in solving real-world problems. If you are interested, please email me your CV. 

• We also seek full-time undergraduate interns. 

Preferred skill sets (alphabetical order)

• Kinematics / Linear algebra / Probability theory /  Programming skills / Robotics 

• Git / LaTeX / PyTorch / ROS