Yifan Hou
Yifan Hou is an incoming Assistant Professor in UT Computer Science and a core faculty member of Texas Robotics. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University and a Scientist at Amazon Robotics. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.E. degree from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on robust and dexterous robotic manipulation at the intersection of physics and learning, drawing on methods from machine learning, control and mechanics.
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
Extending robot capability by understanding principles of manipulation robustness and discovering more efficient and effective learning paradigms.
Current Research:
Multimodal imitation learning, post-training, sim2real transfer, dexterous manipulation, mechanics of manipulation