Jun Yamada

I am currently a postdocoral scientist at Amazon Robotics. I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford within the Applied AI Lab (A2I Lab), part of the Oxford Robotics Institute, supervised by Professor Ingmar Posner. During my DPhil, I was fortuned to intern at NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab.

Prior to my DPhil, I was a visiting student at the University of Southern California, advised by Professor Joseph J. Lim. I completed my master at University College London, supervised by Professor John Shawe-Taylor and Dr. Zafeirios Fountas.

        

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I am boradly interested in rapid skill acquisition for complex manipulation tasks. So far, I have been working on (1) combining motion planning and a learning-based policy for manipulation tasks in complex environments, (2) learning-based motion planning/trajectory optimisation, and (3) world modelling for efficient skill acquisition. I have also started working on bimanual manipulation because bimanual coordination is often necessary to achieve complex manipulation tasks such as assembly.