CLAW Lab

Maithili Patel મૈથિલી પટેલ

📚 Proactive Robotics

@MaithiliPatel31 she/her

Yingshan Chang 常影杉

📚Generalization

@_Yingshan she/her

Research

Inductive Generalization for Robotic Manipulation

Model Successor Functions

Language Models Need Inductive Biases to Count Inductively

Tools Fail: Detecting Silent Errors in Faulty Tools

DiffusionPID: Interpreting Diffusion via Partial Information Decomposition

VISREAS: Complex Visual Reasoning with Unanswerable Questions

Skews in the Phenomenon Space Hinder Generalization in Text-to-Image Generation

Training Vision-Language Transformers from Captions

WebQA: Multihop and Multimodal QA

Jared Fernandez Jared Fernandez

📚Energy/Resource Efficiency

@FernJared he/him

(co- Emma Strubell)

Research

Position: Evaluation of {ML} Resource Utilization Requires Model Life Cycle Assessment

Energy Considerations of Large Language Model Inference and Efficiency Optimizations

Efficient Hardware Scaling and Diminishing Returns in Large-Scale Training of Language Models

Gradient Localization Improves Lifelong Pretraining of Language Models

The Framework Tax: Disparities Between Inference Efficiency in Research and Deployment

Abitha Thankaraj അബിത തങ്കരാജ്

📚Language Modeling

@abitha___ she/her

Research

Looking beyond the next token

Rosa Vitiello Technically Rosanna

📚Pedagogy

@rosie_vitiello she/her

Quanting Xie 谢泉廷

📚Dexterity

@DanielXieee he/him

Research

IndoorR2X: Indoor Robot-to-Everything Coordination with LLM-Driven Planning

MM-SeR: Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning

Unsupervised Discovery of Long-Term Spatiotemporal Periodic Workflows in Human Activities

Affordance RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Affordance-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation

Embodied-RAG: General non-parametric Embodied Memory for Retrieval and Generation

Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

Reasoning about the Unseen for Efficient Outdoor Object Navigation

Leena Mathur Leena Mathur

📚Social Intelligence

@lmathur_ she/her

(co- LP Morency)

Research

Not All Thinking Helps: Which Reasoning Behaviors Matter Most in Thinking Models

When Should AI Read the Room? Public Perceptions of Social Intelligence in AI Agents

SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents

Haochen Zhang 张皓晨

📚Robust Robot Learning

@haochenz_11 she/her

Research

Inductive Generalization for Robotic Manipulation

Flatness Preserves Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models

Annabella Macaluso Annabella Macaluso

📚Robot Generalization

@anna_macalus she/her

Research

Inductive Generalization for Robotic Manipulation

Wenjie Li 李文洁

📚Machine Cognition

@WenjieWLi she/her

Jacob Thompson Jacob Thompson

📚Spatial Reasoning

  he/him

Research

REM: Evaluating LLM Embodied Spatial Reasoning through Multi-Frame Trajectories

Ani Kimmel Ani Kimmel

📚3D Manufacturing

  she/her

Research

Position: You Can't Manufacture a NeRF

Vidhi Jain विधि जैन

Ph.D. 2025
RS @ OpenAI

@viddivj she/her

So Yeon Min 민소연

Ph.D. 2025
RS @ Microsoft

@SoYeonTiffMin she/her

(co- Rus Salakhutdinov)

Hao Zhu 朱昊

Ph.D. 2024
Postdoc @ Stanford

@_Hao_Zhu he/him/他

(co- Graham Neubig)