Wilson Yan

Hi everyone! I'm an 1st year Computer Science PhD Student at UC Berkeley. I am currently advised by Professor Pieter Abbeel as a part of Berkeley AI Research.

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I am interested in reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning and self-supervised learning. My current research is focused on using representation learning to learn strong, plannable latent spaces for robotic learning tasks.

Using contrastive methods to learn plannable representations for manipulating deformable objects such as rope and cloth

Performing image interpolation and semantic manipulation (e.g. hair color, smiling, gender) with a PixelCN on facial images using Fisher scores as an embedding space

Sim-to-Real transfer to learning a cloth-spreading policy on a real robot with any human demonstrations