Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
I am an associate professor at UPenn’s GRASP lab, with a primary appointment in CIS, and a secondary appointment in ESE. I lead the Perception, Action, and Learning (PennPAL) Research Group, where we work on problems at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision.
Research Statement: My research statement, last updated Aug 2025, explains our research vision.
Teaching: In Fall 2025, I am teaching CIS 4190 / 5190 Applied Machine Learning. Here are the past courses I have taught.
For prospective masters and undergraduate students
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I receive a lot of email and find it difficult to respond to them all. I will try to get to your email sooner if you are enrolled at Penn and either: (1) a student in a class I am instructing (most communication would be appropriate on the Ed forum, unless you specifically want to avoid TA eyes; if you're sure you need to email me, start subject with "[<course number> student]", e.g. "[CIS 4190 student]"), or (2) assigned to me as an advisee (start email subject with "[Student Advisee]").Recent Publications
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Motion Capture with Millimeter-Wave Tags.
SenSys,
2026.
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Let it Cook: Learning to Wait in Sequential Decision Making.
Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC),
2026.
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TimeRewarder: Learning Dense Reward from Passive Videos via Frame-wise Temporal Distance.
ICML,
2026.
🏆 ICML 2026 Spotlight
Funding & Support
Our work is possible thanks to the support of:
