Bo Ai

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I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, advised by Hao Su and Henrik I. Christensen. I seek to develop principled and scalable machine learning methods to solve real-world robotic tasks that would otherwise be intractable.

I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the National University of Singapore with the highest distinction, where I worked with David Hsu on long-range navigation with a Spot robot. I later visited the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, working with Yunzhu Li and Jiajun Wu on learning world models for robotic manipulation with multi-modal perception.

For master’s and undergraduate students: I dedicate 30 minutes each week to connect with students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. If you are interested in discussing graduate school, research, or potential collaborations, please feel free to reach out. I am always open to engaging conversations.

News

Feb 13, 2025 I will be joining the Boston Dynamics AI Institute as a summer intern.
May 05, 2024 I will present our work RoboPack in three workshops at ICRA 2024: ViTac, 3DVRM, and Future Roadmap for Manipulation Skills. Welcome to drop by our poster sessions.
Apr 14, 2024 I am joining UCSD as a PhD student in 2024 fall!

Selected Publications

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    IntentionNet: Map-Lite Visual Navigation at the Kilometre Scale
    Wei Gao, Bo Ai, Joel Loo,  Vinay, and David Hsu
    arXiv, 2024
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    RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) , 2024
    Abridged in ICRA 2024 workshops ViTac, 3DVRM, Future Roadmap for Sensorimotor Skills, and RSS 2024 workshop Priors4Robots.
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    Invariance is Key to Generalization: Examining the Role of Representation in Sim-to-Real Transfer for Visual Navigation
    Bo AiZhanxin Wu, and David Hsu
    International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) , 2023
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    Deep Visual Navigation under Partial Observability
    Bo Ai, Wei Gao,  Vinay, and David Hsu
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2022