Jeffrey Ichnowski
Assistant Professor
Studies robot motion planning and manipulation using optimization, cloud computing and learning.
Jeffrey Ichnowski's lab at CMU works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, manipulation & robot learning and learning theory & optimization. 27 papers since 2023, 21 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 78%
- PhD students
- —
- MS students
- —
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 3
- 10 papers2024 · T1 9
- 7 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, ACC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning12 papers
- Learning theory & optimization5 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems4 papers
- robot motion0 papers
- cloud computing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage and DBLP.
20263 papers
- ICRA (T1)Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DYMO-Hair: Generalizable Volumetric DYnamics Modeling for Robot Hair Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ExpReS-VLA: Specializing Vision-Language-Action Models Through Experience Replay and Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- CASEHearing the Slide: Acoustic-Guided Constraint Learning for Fast Non-Prehensile Transport (opens in a new tab)
- CASEORB: Operating Room Bot, Automating Operating Room Logistics through Mobile Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion (opens in a new tab)
- ACCRobot Failure Recovery Using Vision-Language Models With Optimized Prompts (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Soft Robotic Dynamic in-Hand Pen Spinning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SonicBoom: Contact Localization Using Array of Microphones (opens in a new tab)
202410 papers
- IROS (T1)BOMP: Bin-Optimized Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Cloth-Splatting: 3D Cloth State Estimation from RGB Supervision (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FogROS2-Config: A Toolkit for Choosing Server Configurations for Cloud Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)FogROS2-FT: Fault Tolerant Cloud Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FogROS2-LS: A Location-Independent Fog Robotics Framework for Latency Sensitive ROS2 Applications (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)KOROL: Learning Visualizable Object Feature with Koopman Operator Rollout for Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)MOE-Hair: Toward Soft and Compliant Contact-rich Hair Manipulation and Care (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)POE: Acoustic Soft Robotic Proprioception for Omnidirectional End-effectors (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Residual-NeRF: Learning Residual NeRFs for Transparent Object Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- HumanoidsRoPotter: Toward Robotic Pottery and Deformable Object Manipulation with Structural Priors (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Automating Surgical Peg Transfer: Calibration With Deep Learning Can Exceed Speed, Accuracy, and Consistency of Humans (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)FogROS2-SGC: A ROS2 Cloud Robotics Platform for Secure Global Connectivity (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FogROS2: An Adaptive Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2
- CoRL (T1)HANDLOOM: Learned Tracing of One-Dimensional Objects for Inspection and Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Learning to Efficiently Plan Robust Frictional Multi-Object Grasps (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Self-Supervised Visuo-Tactile Pretraining to Locate and Follow Garment Features (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SGTM 2.0: Autonomously Untangling Long Cables using Interactive Perception
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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