Daniel Seita
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Directs the SLURM lab on robot manipulation of deformable objects using learning and sensing.
Daniel Seita's lab at USC works on manipulation & robot learning, robot perception & SLAM and physics-based simulation & animation. 34 papers since 2023, 29 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICRA. 8 PhD students and 11 master's students. 43 alumni, most often to Amazon and Ambarella Inc. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 85%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 11
- alumni listed
- 43
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 19 papers2026 · T1 19 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 6
- 4 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICRA, IROS, ICLR, CVPR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning22 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM8 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation2 papers
- deformable objects0 papers
- deformable0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202619 papers
- CoRL (T1)Beyond the End-Effector: Learning Whole-Arm Contact Manipulation from Human Demonstrations
- ICLR (T1)Causally Robust Reward Learning From Reason-Augmented Preference Feedback
- IROS (T1)Concurrent Prehensile and Nonprehensile Manipulation: A Practical Approach to Multi-Stage Dexterous Tasks
- IROS (T1)CRAFT: Video Diffusion for Bimanual Robot Data Generation
- ICLR (T1)D-REX: Differentiable Real-to-Sim-to-Real Engine for Learning Dexterous Grasping
- ICML (T1)Fix the Mind, Not the Move: Interpretable AI Assistance via Knowledge-Gap Localization
- IROS (T1)HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness
- IROS (T1)ICLR: In-Context Imitation Learning with Visual Reasoning
- ICRA (T1)IMPACT: Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories via Vision-Language Models
- CVPR (T1)LAM: Language Articulated Object Modelers
- ICRA (T1)Learning Geometry-Aware Nonprehensile Pushing and Pulling with Dexterous Hands
- ICRA (T1)OCRA: Object-Centric Learning with 3D and Tactile Priors for Human-to-Robot Action Transfer
20259 papers
- WACVCross-domain Multi-modal Few-shot Object Detection via Rich Text
- CoRL (T1)D-CODA: Diffusion for Coordinated Dual-Arm Data Augmentation
- CoRL (T1)Granular Loco-Manipulation: Repositioning Rocks Through Strategic Sand Avalanche
- ISERHRIBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Real-Time Human Perception in Human-Robot Interaction
- CoRL (T1)ManipBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Low-Level Robot Manipulation
- ICLR (T1)PhysBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Physical World Understanding
- CoRL (T1)Robot Learning from Any Images
- IROS (T1)Sequential Multi-Object Grasping with One Dexterous Hand
- ISERThe MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors
20244 papers
- ISRRGPT-Fabric: Smoothing and Folding Fabric by Leveraging Pre-Trained Foundation Models
- CoRL (T1)Learning Granular Media Avalanche Behavior for Indirectly Manipulating Obstacles on a Granular Slope
- ISRRLearning to Singulate Objects in Packed Environments using a Dexterous Hand
- CoRL (T1)VoxAct-B: Voxel-Based Acting and Stabilizing Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
20232 papers
- ICRA (T1)AutoBag: Learning to Open Plastic Bags and Insert Objects
- IROS (T1)Bagging by Learning to Singulate Layers Using Interactive Perception
Where alumni went43 listed, 37% to industry
Industry 10Academia 17
Most often to
- Amazon
- Ambarella Inc
- Field AI
Also to
- USC
- Arizona State University
- Columbia University
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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