Eric Zhu

I am a masters student in robotics at Carnegie Mellon where I research the intersection of machine learning and robotics.

Previously, I was an undergraduate senior at the University of Maryland, College Park, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. During the course of my undergrad, I have worked with Abhinav Shrivastava and Yiannis Aloimonos in computer vision and robotics.

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Research

I'm interested in computer vision, generative AI, robotics, and 3D world models. My current research focuses on integrating novel view synthesis networks into robotic algorithms.

A novel method that is capable of teaching a policy to interact with objects that are not present in the dataset through the use of NERF based scene augmentation.

A method that leverages NeRF models to effectively bring a reinforcement learning algorithm called hindsight experience replay into the visual domain.