Haimin Hu
@HaiminHu
Incoming Assistant Professor @JHUCompSci | PhD candidate @Princeton ECE | MSE @Penn @GRASPlab | BEng @ShanghaiTechUni. I like robots (when they are safe).
Can AI keep you safe at 200 mph? We pushed the limits on the world-class racing sim @AC_assettocorsa🏁 When danger strikes, our AI copilot smoothly adjusts your steering, gas & brakes faster than you blink, keeping you on track, in control and crash-free🛡️✨ See it in action!👇🧵
Extremely honored to be part of this year’s RSS Pioneers cohort! Looking forward to meeting everyone in LA!
List of 33 #RSSPioneer2025 is out! Their research interests cover fundamental robot design, modelling and control, robot perception and learning, localisation and mapping, human-robot interaction, healthcare and medical robotics, and soft robots! sites.google.com/view/rsspionee…
🤔 Feel like your AI is bullshitting you? It’s not just you. 🚨 We quantified machine bullshit 💩 Turns out, aligning LLMs to be "helpful" via human feedback actually teaches them to bullshit—and Chain-of-Thought reasoning just makes it worse! 🔥 Time to rethink AI alignment.
Lunch is on with demos and posters 🦾🤖😎🍽️
Hope you have an enjoyable start of the @RoboticsSciSys 2025! On behalf of the organizing committee, we'd like to thank everyone for their contributions to the #RSSPioneers2025 workshop! We hope that it was an unforgettable and inspiring experience for our Pioneers!
Our lab is in Atlanta for #ICRA2025 this week! Reach out if you’re interested in chatting about robot safety—we’d love to connect.
How can we boost the visual generalization of VLAs 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒-𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔? @AsherJHancock will be presenting at #ICRA2025 on Wed in the Vision-Language-Action Models session (WeDT21): Run-Time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More…
Huge thanks to everyone who made NESCW @Columbia awesome! The students and postdocs brought their A-game and created an incredible energy through talks and poster sessions—this is how a research community should always feel! Thrilled to host next year @Princeton! #NESCW2026 📸👇
We are back for another round with the 2nd Annual Northeastern Systems and Control Workshop (NESCW), which will be held @CUSEAS @Columbia on May 3rd, 2025! If you are a systems and controls researcher in the northeast, you are invited! @CSSIEEE @IFAC_Control @l4dc_conf
Congrats to Andrea Bajcsy (@andrea_bajcsy) on receiving the NSF CAREER award! 👏 Her work: “Formalizing Open World Safety for Interactive Robots,” explores how robots make safe decisions beyond collision avoidance. Read about it and her education plans: loom.ly/59evuD0
@OpenAI rolled back GPT-4o citing sycophancy—just as our research predicted. Short-term feedback teaches AI to sound nice... and systematically misaligns it! Our solution: RLHS, training AI with simulated hindsight feedback for long-term alignment! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.08617
We’ve rolled back last week's GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it was overly flattering and agreeable. You now have access to an earlier version with more balanced behavior. More on what happened, why it matters, and how we’re addressing sycophancy: openai.com/index/sycophan…
Don’t miss this awesome workshop that @tianminshu is organizing! 🤖
Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Continual Robot Learning from Humans @ #RSS2025 in LA! We're bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to explore how robots can continuously learn through human interactions! Full details: …-robot-learning-from-humans.github.io @RoboticsSciSys