USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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Congrats to USC Viterbi’s Robin Jia and Ibrahim Sabek on winning the inaugural Google ML & Systems Junior Faculty Awards! @USCViterbi @CSatUSC viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/07/t…
. @USCViterbi is at the International Conference on Machine Learning! See the link below for the papers with applications for healthcare and the theoretical breakthroughs being presented at the premier machine learning conference #ICML viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/07/u…
Allegro-FM, an artificial intelligence-driven simulation model created by Aiichiro Nakano and Ken-ichi Nomura, has made a startling discovery through simulations: it is possible to recapture carbon dioxide emitted in the process of making concrete and place it back into the…
“There is no limit to USC’s future when the Trojan Family comes together” - Interim President Beong Kim. With breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s, blindness, and national defense, the Trojan Fund supports life-saving research. #FightOnForResearch youtu.be/Hecunphcmwk
Leading, retaining and supporting an open-source library as a PhD student is a challenging and often thankless job. I am very proud of @btjanaka's work on @pyribs
Pyribs v0.8.0 is now available! @pyribs v0.8.0 adds support for new algorithms (Novelty Search, BOP-Elites, and Density Descent Search), while making it easier than ever to design new ones 🧠 Here are the highlights 🧵
Excited to share I’m joining @Tesla_Optimus! Huge thanks to my advisor, @gauravsukhatme, labmates @uscresl, collaborators @NVIDIARobotics, and all the friends and family who supported me throughout my PhD.
I’m not just dancing all day, ok
Could open-source MedTech reshape healthcare? @uscbme Ellis Meng and team are creating low-cost, customizable implantable devices to accelerate innovation and expand access. More at the link: viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/06/c…
The @RoboticsSciSys held for the 2nd time at @USC in the conference's history, smashed its conference records with 594 papers & nearly 1,300 attendees. Click below for the conference recap. @gauravsukhatme @USCViterbi @USCMingHsiehEE @CSatUSC viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/07/r…
In other news, ReWiND won best paper at the OOD workshop at RSS yesterday! If you haven’t already, check out: 🕸️📑: rewind-reward.github.io Or if you’re lazy like me read @Jesse_Y_Zhang’s tweet 😉
Reward models that help real robots learn new tasks—no new demos needed! ReWiND uses language-guided rewards to train bimanual arms on OOD tasks in 1 hour! Offline-to-online, lang-conditioned, visual RL on action-chunked transformers. 🧵
While some of my students were organizing the human-in-the-loop robot learning workshop at RSS 2025, another group won the best paper award at the OOD workshop among ~50 papers with the ReWiND paper 👏🏻 (see the quoted thread for the paper)
Reward models that help real robots learn new tasks—no new demos needed! ReWiND uses language-guided rewards to train bimanual arms on OOD tasks in 1 hour! Offline-to-online, lang-conditioned, visual RL on action-chunked transformers. 🧵
📣 the deadline for archival papers in the #ICCV2025 artificial social intelligence workshop is tomorrow! archival papers will be published in #ICCV workshop proceedings and presented we welcome any papers on social signal processing, social scene understanding, social…
Excited to announce the Artificial Social Intelligence Workshop @ ICCV 2025 @ICCVConference Join us in October to discuss the science of social intelligence and algorithms to advance socially-intelligent AI! Discussion will focus on reasoning, multimodality, and embodiment.
Super excited to help with organizing HRI this year! I’m here to answer all your website-related questions!
🚨 Ready, (re)set, write! Be part of another inspiring year of human-robot interaction at #HRI2026 in Edinburgh, March 16-19 🏴 📣 Abstracts due: Sept 22 📜 Full papers: Sept 30 Theme: #HRI Empowering Society 🤖 📌Details and info on ACM open-access fees: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/
Workshops and posters underway at #RSS2025 and a @mastertoadster Matt Mason sighting with @yuewang314 and Dieter Fox, Byron Boots and Fabio Ramos!
🚀 #RSS2025 Day 3 Highlights! 🚀 What a packed day of robotics inspiration and innovation! Here's what we explored today: 🌟 Early Career Spotlight by Zac Manchester🛰️ 🎤 Keynote by Trevor Darrell 🧠 🔬 Technical Sessions! Looking forward to more excitement tomorrow!
🎉 Final Day of #RSS2025! Day 4 of an unforgettable #RSS2025 of groundbreaking research and community connection here in LA, but don't forget that more than 30 workshops await tomorrow!
“As a PHD student, your job is not publishing a paper every quarter. Focus on a problem in deep understanding and solve it in years under the protect of your adviser” from @RussTedrake #RSS2025
Superb insights from the panel and a closing picture to commemorate a great session ! #RSS2025 thanks to the panelists and to @maththrills for moderating and @lucacarlone1 and @aprorok for the innovation!
The past, present and future of robotics panel chaired by @maththrills at #RSS2025 is underway on a philosophical note with wonderful panelists Fabio Ramos @chelseabfinn @RussTedrake @HollingerG90964 Ayoung Kim and @haroldsoh . @lucacarlone1 and @aprorok - great innovation at RSS
I am going to give a talk about our work at 5:30pm-6:30pm today in Imitations Learning Session I. Also we have our poster at poster board 54. If you are interested in our work, feel free to check our poster and chat with me!
Ever watch your imitation-based robot policy do something bizarre? Wish you could fix it—no retraining needed? Meet FOREWARN, a VLM-in-the-loop system that steers multi-modal generative policies toward the right outcomes, on the fly.
RSS Pioneer poster happening live on grass @USC!! 😛😛come to Associate Park, poster #8 to chat more about continual robot learning, human-in-the-loop, and reliable deployment! #RSS2025
Honored to be part of the RSS Pioneers 2025 cohort! Looking forward to meeting everyone @RoboticsSciSys in LA this year!