Research

2023–Now Prompt-to-Product: Unleashing Creativity with AI and Robots From an abstract idea to a robot-built physical product. 2023–Now Humanoid Robots: Safety and Dexterity 2023–Now Neural-Symbolic Robotics: Learning and Reconfiguring Task Structure Connecting human intent, symbolic task structure, and learned visuomotor control. 2022–Now Toward Lifelong Safety of Autonomous Systems in UIE 2025–2026 PerSEVE (Perception by Segmentation, Extensible Visual Ecosystem) PerSEVE develops dataset and foundation perception models for manufacturing. 2024–2026 Koopman Theory for Robot Learning and Control We develop Koopman-based methods for scalable learning, prediction, control, and safety. 2023–2025 State-wise Safe and Robust Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control 2021–2025 Real-Time Systems for Human-Robot Interaction and Industrial Metaverse 2023–2024 Enhancing and Verifying the Robustness of Learning-based Systems 2019–2024 Automatic Onsite Grinding of Large Complex Surfaces 2022–2023 Proactive Safe Human-Robot Interaction 2020–2022 Safe Uncaged Industrial Robots 2020–2021 Hierarchical Motion Planning for Efficient and Provably Safe HRI 2019–2021 6DoF Robot Assembly Station of Consumer Electronic Production 2019 Adaptable Behavior Prediction for Autonomous Driving 2012–2018 Past Projects