Albert Wilcox

I am a PhD student in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing studying machine learning and robotics. I am advised by Professor Animesh Garg.

Previously I did my BA and MS at BAIR with Professor Ken Goldberg. I've also spent time with Nuro and AWS.

Beyond research, I enjoy outdoor activities of any sort, climbing, playing guitar, and endurance sports (I was on Berkeley's triathlon team). Feel free to follow me on Strava!

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I'm interested in methods utilizing internet-scale data for learning to complete robotic manipulation tasks. Specifically, I'm looking into reinforcement learning, imitation learning and generative modeling.

Learning a shared latent space between visual and tactile observations which is useful for a variety of downstream tasks.

An easy-to-implement change that can be made to any off-policy actor critic algorithm to speed up and stabilize sparse reward deep reinforcement learning from demonstrations.

An algorithm combining active sensing, perception and imitation learning to reliably hand unmodified surgical needles from one arm to the other on a daVinci Research Kit surgical robot.

Safe and efficient RL from image observations by leveraging suboptimal demonstrations to structure exploration and examples of constraint violations to satisfy user-specified constraints.

An interactive imitation learning algorithm that reasons about both state novelty and risk to actively query for human interventions. The algorithm balances supervisor burden and task performance more successfully than prior robot-gated algorithms and is competitive with an oracle human-gated baseline.

Reframing the model-based RL framework with long-term rather than single step state predictions using continuous "trajectory-based" models.

As with the other 90% of budding ML researchers, I got my website template from Jon Barron.