[AI Seminar Series] REMINDER: Seminar by Prof. Yuke Zhu, tomorrow Friday Oct.17th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Reminder for the AI Seminar tomorrow Friday at noon. Please use the link
below to register if you plan to attend.

V. Tsotras
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On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM Vassilis Tsotras <vassilis.tsotras at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> The next AI Seminar will be next Friday October 17th, 12:00-1:00pm at the
> MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
> *** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-seminar-series-tickets-1805849397159
>
> The talk will be given by *Prof. Yuke Zhu*, Department of Computer
> Science, UT-Austin
>
> TITLE: Building Foundation Models for Generalist Humanoid Robots
>
> ABSTRACT:
> In an era of rapid AI progress, leveraging accelerated computing and big
> data has unlocked new possibilities to develop generalist AI models. As AI
> systems like ChatGPT showcase remarkable performance in the digital realm,
> we are compelled to ask: Can we achieve similar breakthroughs in the
> physical world — to create generalist humanoid robots capable of performing
> everyday tasks? In this talk, I will present our data-centric research
> principles and approaches for building general-purpose robot autonomy in
> the open world. I will discuss our recent works leveraging real-world,
> synthetic, and web data for training robotic foundation models. By
> combining these advances with cutting-edge developments in humanoid
> robotics, I will outline a roadmap for the next generation of autonomous
> robots.
>
>
> Bio:
> Yuke Zhu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of
> UT-Austin, where he directs the Robot Perception and Learning (RPL) Lab. He
> is also a Director and Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research,
> where he co-leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) lab. He
> focuses on developing intelligent algorithms for generalist robots and
> embodied agents to reason about and interact with the real world. He
> obtained his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. He received the NSF
> CAREER Award, the IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award, and various faculty
> fellowships and research awards from Amazon, JP Morgan, and Sony Research.
>
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> Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents
> speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or applying AI in their
> research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community about
> current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between faculty
> in this emerging field. These seminars are open to interested faculty and
> graduate/undergraduate students. Please forward this email to other
> colleagues or students in your lab that may be interested. After the
> seminar a discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for
> possible collaborations etc.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
> Amit Roy-Chowdhury
> Professor, ECE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
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