Excited to share our new paper on implicit safety alignment from crowd feedback that was accepted at ICML! We learn shared safety constraints from crowd feedback and show this can help alleviate reward misspecification. Kudos to my PhD student Qian Lin! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.21822 🧵1/7

Our paper "A Multi-Layer Sim-to-Real Framework for Gaze-Driven Assistive Neck Exoskeletons" is being presented this week at ICRA 2026! arxiv.org/abs/2603.06779 🧵1/8

Super excited about our lab's new paper led by my PhD student Zifan Wu: "Understanding the Effects of Neuron Dominance in Deep Reinforcement Learning", that has been published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)! openreview.net/forum?id=VNV... 1/N

How can you do imitation learning for multi-agent systems if the demonstrator is just a single human? Unless you're a doctor octopus genius, this is really hard! We study this problem in a new paper that will be at ICRA'26! 1/N

The Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah is hiring for multiple faculty positions! We're especially interested in growing in the areas of human-centered AI and robotics! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...

Can you trust your reward model alignment scores? New work presented today at the COLM Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research led by Purbid Bambroo and in collaboration with @anamarasovic.bsky.social that probes LLM preference test sets for redundancy and inflated scores. 1/8

Check out our new paper being presented today at #CoRL2025 on uncertainty quantification: openreview.net/forum?id=K7K.... We propose a new second-order metric for uncertainty quantification in robot learning that we call "Agreement Volatility." 1/5

Excited to announce that my lab's research was recently highlighted in an AI Magazine article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Shared autonomy systems have been around for a long time but most approaches require a learned or specified set of possible human goals or intents. I'm excited for my student Connor Mattson to present our work at #HRI2025 on a zero-shot, vision-only shared autonomy (VOSA) framework. 1/3

Excited to announce that I've been invited to give a talk at AAAI-25 on "Leveraging Human Input to Enable Robust, Interactive, and Aligned AI Systems" as part of their New Faculty Highlights program!