Katherine Driggs-Campbell
Associate Professor
Studies human-centered autonomy, including safe autonomous driving, human-robot interaction and learning-based control.
Katherine Driggs-Campbell's lab at UIUC works on manipulation & robot learning, human-robot interaction & assistive robots and embodied & active vision. 36 papers since 2023, 20 at top venues, mostly ICRA and CoRL. 9 PhD students and 4 master's students. 22 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 22
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 4
- 9 papers2024 · T1 4
- 15 papers2023 · T1 12
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, CoRL, RA-L, AAMAS, IJRR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning15 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots15 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- safe autonomous0 papers
- studies human-centered0 papers
Paper list
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202512 papers
- ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education’Too Theoretical and Nowhere Near Interesting’: Using a Tool to Increase Student Motivation for Formal Methods (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEEA Taxonomy and Review of Algorithms for Modeling and Predicting Human Driver Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- Assistive TechnologyDeveloping Wayfinding Robotic Support for Older Persons with Vision Impairments (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LDo you know the way? Human-in-the-Loop Understanding for Fast Traversability Estimation in Mobile Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Computing SurveysHallucination Detection in Foundation Models for Decision-Making: A Flexible Definition and Review of the State of the Art (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Human-agent joint learning for efficient robot manipulation skill acquisition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Automation Science and EngineeringImplementation and Validation of Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms on a Self-Balancing Robot (opens in a new tab)
- International Society for Terrain-Vehicle SystemsIn-Situ Soil-Property Estimation and Bayesian Mapping with a Simulated Compact Track Loader (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning coordinated bimanual manipulation policies using state diffusion and inverse dynamics models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineLessons in Cooperation: Driver Sentiments towards Real-Time Advisory Systems (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Tool-as-Interface: Learning robot policies from human tool usage through imitation learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Towards real-time generation of delay-compensated video feeds for outdoor mobile robot teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
20249 papers
- RA-LA Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding (opens in a new tab)
- IJRR (T1)An Expert Ensemble for Detecting Anomalous Scenes, Interactions, and Behaviors in Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation SystemsCooperative Advisory Residual Policies for Congestion Mitigation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)D^3 Fields: Dynamic 3D Descriptor Fields for Zero-Shot Generalizable Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- WAFRInteraction-aware Conformal Prediction for Crowd Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Neural Informed RRT* with Point-based Network Guidance for Optimal Sampling-based Path Planning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessRobotics via Experiential Active Learning with Immersive Technology: A Pedagogical Framework Designed for Engineering Curricula
- TMLR (T1)Towards Provable Log Density Policy Gradient (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LW-RIZZ: A Weakly-Supervised Framework for Relative Traversability Estimation in Mobile Robotics (opens in a new tab)
202315 papers
- CoRL (T1)A Data-Efficient Visual-Audio Representation with Intuitive Fine-tuning for Voice-Controlled Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)An Attentional Recurrent Neural Network for Occlusion-Aware Proactive Anomaly Detection in Field Robot Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Dynamic-Resolution Model Learning for Object Pile Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Efficient Equivariant Transfer Learning from Pretrained Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Hierarchical Intention Tracking for Robust Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Assembly Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Visual-Audio Representations for Voice-Controlled Robots (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Marginalized Importance Sampling for Off-Environment Policy Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Occlusion-Aware Crowd Navigation Using People as Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- ISTVSOnline Soil Property Estimation for Autonomous Earthmoving Using Physics-Infused Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- ITSCPeRP: Personalized Residual Policies For Congestion Mitigation Through Co-operative Advisory Systems (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Predicting Object Interactions with Behavior Primitives: An Application in Stowing Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Socially-Aware Robot Crowd Navigation with Attention-Based Interaction Graph (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went22 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 2
Also to
- Harvard University
- UT Austin
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
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