Yuchen Cui
Assistant Professor
Develops algorithms and systems for robots that learn efficiently from human interaction, with a focus on home robotics.
Yuchen Cui's lab at UCLA works on efficient training & inference. 22 papers since 2023. 5 PhD students. 9 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 0
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Efficient training & inference1 paper
- efficiently0 papers
- home0 papers
- human interaction0 papers
- develops algorithms0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), SeptemberDexEXO: A Wearability-First Dexterous Exoskeleton for Operator-Agnostic Demonstration and Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), MarchDiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), SeptemberLearning from the Best: Smoothness-Driven Metrics for Data Quality in Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), NovemberMeta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), JulyMolmoSpaces: A Large-Scale Open Ecosystem for Robot Navigation and Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), SeptemberTeleDex: Accessible Dexterous Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), NovemberVisible Touch: Rendering Contact for Visuomotor Policies (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), SeptemberCasper: Inferring Diverse Intents for Assistive Teleoperation with Vision Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR WorkshopGraphPad: Inference-Time 3D Scene Graph Updates for Embodied Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayHow to Train Your Robots? The Impact of Demonstration Modality on Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- RSS WorkshopIntent at a Glance: Gaze-Guided Robotic Manipulation via Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) MetaFood Workshop, JuneSAMJAM: Zero-Shot Video Scene Graph Generation for Egocentric Kitchen Videos (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), MarchShared Autonomy for Proximal Teaching (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning Workshop, NovTRACE: Textual Reasoning for Affordance Coordinate Extraction (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayDistilling and Retrieving Generalizable Knowledge for Robot Manipulation via Language Corrections (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), NovemberFlowRetrieval: Flow-Guided Data Retrieval for Few-Shot Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayOpen X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March"No, to the Right" – Online Language Corrections for Robotic Manipulation via Shared Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), DecemberData Quality in Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), NovemberGesture-Informed Robot Assistance via Foundation Model (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), NovemberHYDRA: Hybrid Robot Actions for Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), OctoberMasked Imitation Learning: Discovering Environment-Invariant Modalities in Multimodal Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed
Apply to UCLAFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round (Dec 15)
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- optional
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- See program page
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- CNPeking
Tao Wang
- Computational neuroscience & cognition
- HKCUHK
Yixuan Yuan
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI
- GBUCL
Peter Bentley
- Genomics & computational biology
- CNPeking
Yao Sui
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI
- CNSJTU
Xiaofan Zhang
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI
- GBUCL
Gary Zhang
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- The lab homepage
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.
UCLAcloses