Raymond Yu

About Me

Hey there! I am a third year undergraduate studying computer science at the Allen School in the University of Washington, Seattle. I am fortunate to be advised by Abhishek Gupta in the WEIRD Lab. My broad research interests are in robotics, reinforcement learning, and computer vision. Recently, I've been focused on reducing the need for manual data collection to enable scalable robot learning for long-horizon, diverse, and complex tasks. At the Allen Institute for AI, I worked on the PRIOR team as a student researcher.

Alongside my research, I enjoy teaching and mentoring. I currently serve as a Teaching Assistant for CSE455 (Computer Vision). In the past I have TA'ed CSE311 (Discrete Mathematics), tutored Calculus and Linear Algebra at the UW Math Study Center, and served as a Teaching Assistant for the Saturday Enrichment Program at the UW Robinson Center, where I led sessions in neuroscience, robotics, computing, and physics.

Outside of work, I enjoy swimming, going on mindless walks, and also trying out new food. Feel free to contact me, let's chat!

News

• [January. 2025]   Unified World Model has been submitted to RSS 2025.
• [January. 2025]   HAMSTER has been accepted to ICLR 2025.
• [January. 2025]   I am a teaching assistant for Computer Vision (CSE455).
• [November. 2024]   DRAWER has been submitted to CVPR 2025!
• [Oct. 2024]   Our OPTIMUS paper has been accepted to WACV 2025!
• [Sep. 2024]   Thrilled to share that I was awarded the Kyril Faenov Endowed Scholarship!
• [Sep. 2024]   Grateful to have received the Experiential Learning Award with a $3000 grant!

Publications

Coming very soon! A few papers are currently in submission or preperation.

Vitæ

• WEIRD Lab Jun. 2024 - Present

  Research Assistant
  Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robot Learning
• Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Jan 2024 - Aug. 2024

  PRIOR Student Researcher (Mentors: Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters)
  Unsupervised Satellite Change Detection
• University of Washington Sep. 2022 - Present

  B.S. in Computer Science
  
• UW Robinson Center Sep. 2022 - Present

  UW Academy