About
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab at Stanford University, working with Prof. Marco Pavone. I completed my Ph.D. at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Kilian Q. Weinberger and Prof. Bharath Hariharan.
My research centers on the visual understanding of the world — 3D perception and multimodal learning — combining visual data with other sensory inputs to build a richer, more robust understanding of the environment. Increasingly, I focus on multimodal foundation models that unify perception, reasoning, and action — extending the same principle of learning from rich, weakly-labeled signals from 3D scenes to language-grounded embodied reasoning.
I have been fortunate to be supported by a Cornell University Fellowship, an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship, and an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship. Before Cornell, I worked across applied machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, and natural language processing.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science · 2020–2025
Cornell University
M.S. in EECS · 2018–2019
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in EECS · 2015–2018
University of California, Berkeley
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Research Output
Grouped by theme · * denotes equal contribution. For an always-current list, see my Google Scholar.
Research
Where I have done my research.
Aug 2024 — Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), Stanford University — advised by Prof. Marco Pavone
Palo Alto, USA
2020 — May 2025
Graduate Student Researcher
Machine Learning, Cornell University — advised by Prof. Kilian Q. Weinberger & Prof. Bharath Hariharan
Ithaca, USA
Mar 2024 — May 2024
Visiting Student Researcher
Australian Centre for Robotics — advised by Dr. Stephany Berrio Perez & Dr. Stewart Worrall
Sydney, Australia
Jun 2022 — Aug 2022
Visiting Student Researcher
Pioneer Center for AI — advised by Prof. Serge Belongie
Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 — 2019
Student Researcher
Robotic & AI Learning Lab (RAIL), UC Berkeley — advised by Prof. Sergey Levine
Berkeley, USA
Industry
Selected industry internships and roles.
Jun 2024 — Oct 2024
PhD Research Intern
Waymo — Perception Research
Mountain View, USA
Jun 2023 — Dec 2023
Research Intern
NVIDIA — Autonomous Vehicle Research
Santa Clara, USA
May 2021 — Sep 2021
Research Intern
Facebook AI
New York, USA
Jun 2019 — Jun 2020
AI Resident
Uber ATG (acquired by Aurora) — advised by Prof. Raquel Urtasun
Toronto, Canada
May 2018 — Aug 2018
ML Engineering Intern
Google — YouTube
Mountain View, USA
May 2017 — Aug 2017
Data Science Intern
Wish (Context Logic)
San Francisco, USA
May 2016 — Aug 2016
Software Engineering Intern
IBM
San Jose, USA
Selected Talks
Invited talks and seminars.