Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Satyaj Bhargava, John Lorence, Benjamin Cohen, Isaiah Jefferson III, Therese Nneji, Anisha Virmani, Minjie Wu, Howard Aizenstein, Tamer Ibrahim, and George Stetten

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-52, September, 2025

Dataset-Driven and Generative Approaches to Domain Generalization in Human-Centric Vision

Emily Kim

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, September, 2025

Object-Centric Grounding for Deployable and Interactive Vision-Language Navigation Agents

Haochen Zhang

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-86, September, 2025

MapExRL: Human-Inspired Indoor Exploration with Predicted Environment Context and Reinforcement Learning

Narek Harutyunyan, Brady Moon, Seungchan Kim, Cherie Ho, Adam Hung, and Sebastian Scherer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Robotics, September, 2025

Reachable Sets for Control and Planning: from Reactive Safety to Contact-Rich Manipulation

Simin Liu

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-88, September, 2025

Estimating and Generating Human Motions from Interactions

Jinkun Cao

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-89, September, 2025

Towards Generalizable Robotic Policies via Data-Driven Learning at Scale

Jiahui Yang

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-65, August, 2025

Learning to Create 3D Content: Geometry, Appearance, and Physics

Kangle Deng

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-85, August, 2025

Learning Generalizable Robot Skills for Dynamic and Interactive Tasks

Saumya Saxena

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-84, August, 2025

Lowering Barriers to Human-Robot Communication

Vidhi Jain

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-83, August, 2025

Underwater 3D Visual Perception and Generation

Tianyi Zhang

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-82, August, 2025

3D Video Models through Point Tracking, Reconstructing and Forecasting

Wen-Hsuan Chu

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-79, August, 2025

Echoes of the Coliseum: Towards 3D Live streaming of Sports Events

Junkai Huang, Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick, Alejandro Amat, Marc Ruiz Olle, Albert Mosella-Montoro, Bernhard Kerbl, Francisco Vicente Carrasco, and Fernando De la Torre

Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2025, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 1-17, August, 2025

MV-SSM: Multi-View State Space Modeling for 3D Human Pose Estimation

Aviral Chharia, Wenbo Gou, and Haoye Dong

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 11590-11599, August, 2025

Neural Inverse Rendering with Physics-Based Light Transport and Active Sensors

Benjamin Attal

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-81, August, 2025

SplatSim: Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer of RGB Manipulation Policies Using Gaussian Splatting

Mohammad Nomaan Qureshi

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-54, August, 2025

Unified 3D Perception and Generative Control for Generalist Robots

Nikolaos Gkanatsios

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-76, August, 2025

Digital Twins for Hydroponic Lettuce Growth

Morgan Mayborne

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-69, August, 2025

Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding

He Jiang

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-67, August, 2025

Towards Automating Accessibility in Digital Authoring Workflows

Peya Mowar

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-61, August, 2025

Depth-based Reactive Quadrotor Motion Planning and Control in Diverse Environments

Jonathan Lee

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-68, August, 2025

Enhancing Safety and Performance in Multi-agent Systems and Soft Robots via Reinforcement Learning

Yogita Choudhary

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-70, August, 2025

A Robotic Disaster Response System for Autonomous Inspection, Respiration Rate Estimation, and Amputation Detection of Casualties

Mayank Mishra

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-73, August, 2025

Object-Centric Goal Prediction Towards Precise, Generalizable Placement

Eric Cai

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-57, August, 2025

Correcting Nominal Models with Learned Residuals for Aggressive Real-Time Control

Si Heng Teng

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-80, August, 2025

ReferEverything: Towards Segmenting Everything We Can Speak of in Videos Using Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

Anurag Bagchi

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-58, August, 2025

Vision-Driven Autonomous UAS for Search and Rescue

Ian Higgins

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-63, August, 2025

A Conformable Linear Electrode Platform for Impedance Mapping of Soft Tissue Interfaces

Aditti Ramsisaria

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-59, August, 2025

Towards Geometric Reasoning for Dynamic and Unconstrained 3D Scenes

Joel Julin

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-72, July, 2025

Deep Survival Modeling for Personalized Prognosis and Treatment Optimization

Mingzhu Liu

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-71, July, 2025

Multimodal Human Mesh Recovery for Stand-off Triage in Mass Casualty Scenarios

Aniket Agarwal

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-66, July, 2025

Dynamic and Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction via Test-Time Optimization with Priors

Jeff Tan

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-75, July, 2025

Off-road Autonomous Driving via Guided Reinforcement Learning

Vedant Mundheda

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-78, July, 2025

Toward Fast and Generalizable Decision-Making with Diffusion Models

Xintong Duan

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-74, July, 2025

Towards Robotic Convoying in Unstructured Environments

Charles Noren

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-53, July, 2025

Advancing Multimodal Sensing and Robotic Interfaces for Chronic Care

Akhil Padmanabha

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-64, July, 2025

Towards Practical Vision-and-Language Navigation Systems Through 3D Referential Grounding

Nader Zantout

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-60, July, 2025

Parameter-Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Action Anticipation via Iterative Context Refinement

Fnu Aryan

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-45, June, 2025

Towards Off-road Autonomous Driving

Zhouchonghao Wu

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-55, June, 2025

Towards Efficient Multi-Agent and Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning

Wen-Tse Chen

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-56, June, 2025

Toward More Reliable Multimodal Systems: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models