Started a new research collaboration at Northwestern 🚀
Oct 28, 2025
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Thrilled to announce that I’ve started a new research collaboration at Northwestern University, supervised by Prof. Manling Li and mentored by Qineng Wang!
Project: Implicit Task Affordance Prediction in 3D Space
We’re exploring navigation-focused 3D affordance prediction that links videos, point clouds, and camera trajectories to implicit natural language task instructions.
My Role:
- Design the language-conditioning component for PointFormer-style backbones
- Build the early data curation pipeline where VLMs annotate videos with per-frame subtasks and affordances
- Lead the transition from VLM-only prototypes to a navigation model conditioned on language and affordance signals
Looking forward to this exciting journey into embodied AI! 🤖
