Rui Liu

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My name is Rui, currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, working with Prof. Pratap Tokekar. I got my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

I am interested in the fields of robotics, machine learning, reinforcement learning and computer vision. My work spans learning, perception and decision making. Specifically, I focus on enabling robots to acquire new skills from human or environmental demonstrations, allowing them to adapt to different tasks and environments without complex manual programming. The ultimate goal is to leverage these technologies to enhance the quality of human life.

news

Oct 16, 2023 One paper on risk-sensitive policy gradient sample complexity analysis submitted to AISTATS 2024.
Sep 15, 2023 One paper on robotic-assisted feeding (RAF) submitted to ICRA 2024.
Jun 22, 2023 One paper on distributionally robust optimal control (DROC) accepted to IROS 2023!
May 23, 2023 I started my Summer Internship at Apple Reliability Engineering, Cupertino, CA.

selected publications

  1. IROS
    Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimal Control with State-Dependent Noise
    Rui Liu, Guangyao Shi, and Pratap Tokekar
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02293, 2023