PhD Candidate at Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
NSF Fellow
jackyliang at cmu.edu
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I’m a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, and I’m co-advised by Prof. Oliver Kroemer and Prof. Maxim Likhachev.
My research focuses on enabling robust and generalizable robot manipulation by explicitly reasoning about contacts, efficiently collecting interaction data in both simulation and the real world, and incorporating structured manipulation priors into learning-based methods.
Before joining RI I interned at NVIDIA for the Isaac project and worked on using GPU-accelerated physics simulations for robot learning. Before that and during my time at UC Berkeley I did research in robot grasping and manipulation with Prof. Ken Goldberg.
In my spare time I write for and co-run Skynet Today and the Last Week in AI newsletter. Our goal is to demystify and disseminate AI news without the hype. Check us out and subscribe if you like what you see :)
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Jacky Liang*, Mohit Sharma*, Alex LaGrassa, Shivam Vats, Saumya Saxena, Oliver Kroemer.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
May 2022.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Vicky Zeng, Timothy E. Lee*, Jacky Liang*, Oliver Kroemer.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
September 2021.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Jacky Liang, Oliver Kroemer.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
May 2021.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Mohit Sharma*, Jacky Liang*, Jialiang Zhao, Alex LaGrassa, Oliver Kroemer.
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
November 2020.
Plenary Presentation.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Jacky Liang, Saumya Saxena, Oliver Kroemer.
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
July 2020.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Jacky Liang, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Viktor Makoviychuk, Oliver Kroemer, Dieter Fox.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
May 2020.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Wei Yang, Jacky Liang, Yu-Wei Chao, Qian Wan, Stan Birchfield, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
May 2020.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Austin S. Wang, Wuming Zhang, Daniel Troniak, Jacky Liang, Oliver Kroemer.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Macau, China, November 2019.
[Paper]
Jialiang Zhao, Jacky Liang, Oliver Kroemer.
Field and Service Robotics (FSR).
Tokyo, Japan, August 2019.
[arXiv]
Jacky Liang*, Viktor Makoviychuk*, Ankur Handa*, Nuttapong Chentanez, Miles Macklin, Dieter Fox.
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
Zurich, Switzerland, October 2018.
[arXiv]
[Website]
Jacky Liang, Jeffrey Mahler, Michael Laskey, Pusong Li, Ken Goldberg.
Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).
Xi’an, China, August 2017.
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award.
[PDF]
[Website]
Jeffrey Mahler, Jacky Liang, Sherdil Niyaz, Michael Laskey, Richard Doan, Xinyu Liu, Juan Aparicio Ojea, Ken Goldberg. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
Cambridge, MA. July 2017.
[PDF]
[Website]
Menglong Guo, David V. Gealy, Jacky Liang, Jeffrey Mahler, Aimee Goncalves, Stephen McKinley, Ken Goldberg.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Singapore, May 2017.
[PDF]
Nathan Zhang*, Jacky Liang*, Amanda Tomlinson*, Frank Boensch, Anant Sahai. SIGCSE ‘20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. February 2020. [Paper]
Kevin Zhang*, Mohit Sharma*, Jacky Liang*, Oliver Kroemer.
November 2020.
[arXiv]
* Equal Contribution.
Spring 2021 Teaching Assistant
Spring 2020 Teaching Assistant
Spring 2017 Discussion Teaching Assistant
Fall 2016, 2017 Discussion Teaching Assistant