Zi-ang Cao

I am a MS student at Stanford Interactive Perception and Robot Learning Lab (IPRL) working with Prof. Jeannette Bohg. I received my BS from Univeristy of Pittsburgh.

Collaborators: If you're interested in collaborating or learning more about my work, feel free to reach out to me via email and I am always happy to chat!

I am activetly looking for PhD oppotunities starting in Fall 2025.

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I am eager to delve deeper into robotic learning and cross-embodiment learning.

2024/11 - I provided the demo House Heroes: The Stanford Tidy Taskforce at Stanford Robotic Center Launch Ceremony.
2024/08 - Two papers got accepted to CoRL 2024
2023/08 - One papers got accepted to CoRL 2023

Equi-Bot: Equivariance in Imitation Learning for Robust Mobile Manipulation

Exploring equivariant representations for enhanced generalization in robot imitation learning. Targeting mobile manipulation applications.

Unpacking Failure Modes of Generative Policies: Runtime Monitoring of Consistency and Progress

Robot behavior policies trained via imitation learning are prone to failure under conditions that deviate from their training data. In this work, we present Sentinel, a runtime monitor that detects unknown failures (requiring no data of failures) of generative robot policies at deployment time.

What Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery

Conference Reviewer: Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)