Kevin Lin

MS Computer Science at Stanford, advised by Jeannette Bohg; previously, EECS at UC Berkeley. I did research at Waabi, advised by Raquel Urtasun, and at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research with members of Pieter Abbeel's Robot Learning Lab. I also do research with Somil Bansal.

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I'm delighted by intelligent entities of all kinds. In particular, I'm interested in designing the brains of robots so they operate safely and effectively in the real world.

RSS '22 Workshop on Implicit Representations for Robot Manipulation

We motivate, discuss, and present a study on the problem of view planning for radiance fields. We introduce a benchmark, active-3d-gym, for evaluating view planning algorithms for radiance field reconstructions and propose a simple solution to the view planning problem based on radiance field ensembles.

Arxiv '21

We study how aerial robots can autonomously learn to navigate safely in novel indoor environments by combining optimal control and learning techniques. We train our agent entirely in simulation and demonstrate generalization on novel indoor scenes.

4th NeurIPS Workshop on Emergent Communication

Occlusions present a major obstacle to guaranteeing safety in autonomous driving. Our key insight is that, sometimes, AV can get information about occluded regions by inferring over the actions of other agents on the road. We demonstrate that AVs can use this inferred data and level-K reasoning to avoid collisions with occluded pedestrians and drive in a pro-social manner.

Won 1st place in UC Berkeley robotics course's final project

Envisioned and built a prototype vision-only robot vacuum using Visual SLAM to compete with LiDAR based Roomba models.

Developed an open-source tool for applying ML techniques to autonomous vehicle driving policy discovery

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Probability and Random Processes

Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems

Discrete Math and Probability Theory