Garrett Warnell
Visiting Researcher
Garrett Warnell is a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin. He received BS degrees in mathematics and computer engineering from Michigan State University in 2009, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from University of Maryland in 2013 and 2014, respectively. He is also a research scientist with DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, with specific focuses on human-guided machine learning and autonomous robot navigation.
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M. Munje, C. Tang, S. Liu, Z. Hu, Y. Zhu, J. Cui, G. Warnell, J. Biswas, P. Stone. "SocialNav-SUB: Benchmarking VLMs for scene understanding in social robot navigation." CoRL. 2025.
H. Karnan, E. Yang, D. Farkash, G. Warnell, J. Biswas, P. Stone. "STERLING: Self-supervised terrain representation learning from unconstrained robot experience." CoRL. 2023.
X. Xiao, B. Liu, G. Warnell, P. Stone. "Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey." Autonomous Robots. 2022.
F. Torabi, G. Warnell, P. Stone. "Behavioral cloning from observation." IJACI. 2018.
G. Warnell, N. Waytowich, V. Lawhern, P. Stone. "Deep TAMER: Interactive agent shaping in high-dimensional state spaces." AAAI. 2018.