OpenAI
01/2026 - PresentMember of Technical Staff
I am a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Previously, I worked with Prof. Fei-Fei Li and Prof. Jiajun Wu on the BEHAVIOR project at the Stanford Vision & Learning Lab, focusing on 3D robot simulation and datasets for robot learning.
Research
MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints
A demonstration generation method for bimanual mobile manipulation using constrained optimization for reachability and camera visibility.
ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction
Forward and inverse world-modeling tasks for VLMs using 8,972 QA pairs from the BEHAVIOR Challenge.
BEHAVIOR Challenge: 50 full-length household tasks with 1200+ hrs of human teleoperation data
A benchmark and dataset with 10,000 richly annotated expert trajectories across realistic virtual home environments for long-horizon household robotics.
BEHAVIOR Robot Suite
A real-world whole-body manipulation stack with a bimanual wheeled robot, a teleoperation interface, and visuomotor policy learning.
BEHAVIOR-1K
A human-centered embodied AI benchmark with 1,000 everyday activities in realistic simulation.
News
Started at OpenAI on the robotics team
Shared results from the 1st BEHAVIOR Challenge at NeurIPS 2025
Behind-the-scenes on the BEHAVIOR Challenge at BARS 2025
Featured in World Labs' official launch of Marble
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Released MoMaGen BEHAVIOR Challenge covered by Stanford HAI Launched the 1st BEHAVIOR Challenge BEHAVIOR Robot Suite accepted at CoRL 2025 Full release of BEHAVIOR-1K presented at NVIDIA GTC 2024Joined Stanford Vision and Learning Lab as Research Engineer
Experience
Stanford
01/2024 - 01/2026Research Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
06/2023 - 09/2023Robotics & Controls
Northwestern University
09/2022 - 12/2023M.S. in Robotics
Northwestern University
09/2019 - 06/2022B.S. with honors in Computer Science, summa cum laude
Projects
Learning Human Intent for Collaborative Mobile Manipulation
Imitation-learning policies for collaborative mobile manipulation with Omnid robots.
Voice-Controlled Collaborative Cooking System
A robot-assisted cooking system that turns spoken instructions into perception and manipulation actions.
Probabilistic SLAM with Extended Kalman Filtering
A mapping and localization project for estimating robot pose and landmarks in simulation.
Vision-Based Jenga Playing with Franka
A robot arm system for detecting, planning, and executing Jenga moves with safe turn-taking.
Custom Quadrotor with PID Control and Lighthouse Tracking
A custom quadrotor platform for stable flight control and motion tracking.
Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulation
Trajectory planning and control for a mobile manipulator across pick-and-place style motions.
Line-Following Autonomous Motorcycle
A camera-guided line-following motorcycle built around custom steering control.
Emergent Behavior in Multi-Robot Swarms
Distributed simulations for spatial sorting and flocking behavior.
Bio-Signal Controlled Robotic Manipulator
A wearable-controlled robotic arm and gripper for gesture-based manipulation.
Computational Framework for Workplace Collaboration
A web research system for modeling collaboration strategies as executable workflows.
Syntactic Graph Networks for Sentiment Analysis
A graph-based sentiment model over sentence structure.
Lagrangian Dynamics Simulation of Rigid Body Contact
Rigid-body contact simulation for modeling dice-in-cup dynamics.