Heni Ben Amor

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Heni Ben Amor (Preferred)

Heni Amor

Emails

****@asu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2015 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Henrik Christensen

2013 – 2015

Postdoc Advisor

Jan Peters

2011 – 2013

PhD Advisor

Bernhard Jung

2005 – 2010

PhD Advisor

Ulrich Furbach

2002 – 2005

Expertise

Robot Learning

2000 – 2021

Imitation Learning

2000 – 2021

Robotics

2000 – 2021

Reinforcement Learning

2000 – 2021

Publications

RoboMD: Uncovering Robot Vulnerabilities through Semantic Potential Fields
Som Sagar, Jiafei Duan, Sreevishakh Vasudevan, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor, Dieter Fox, Ransalu Senanayake
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
From Mystery to Mastery: Failure Diagnosis for Improving Manipulation Policies
Som Sagar, Jiafei Duan, Sreevishakh Vasudevan, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor, Dieter Fox, Ransalu Senanayake
- OOD Workshop @ RSS2025
- Readers: Everyone
SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement
Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Yifan Zhou, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Swaroop Mishra, Pannag R Sanketi
- ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Prompted Policy Search: Reinforcement Learning through Linguistic and Numerical Reasoning in LLMs
Yifan Zhou, Sachin Grover, Mohamed El Mistiri, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Pratyush Kerhalkar, Swaroop Mishra, Neelesh Kumar, Sanket Gaurav, Oya Aran, Heni Ben Amor
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Comparison of Imitation Learning Algorithms for Bimanual Manipulation
Michael Drolet, Simon Stepputtis, Siva Kailas, Ajinkya Jain, Jan Peters, Stefan Schaal, Heni Ben Amor
- CoRL 2024 Workshop WCBM
- Readers: Everyone
A Comparison of Imitation Learning Algorithms for Bimanual Manipulation
Michael Drolet, Simon Stepputtis, Siva Kailas, Ajinkya Jain, Jan Peters, Stefan Schaal, Heni Ben Amor
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Enabling Stateful Behaviors for Diffusion-based Policy Learning
Xiao Liu, Fabian C Weigend, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor
- ICRA 2024: Back to the Future
- Readers: Everyone
Task Success is not Enough: Investigating the Use of Video-Language Models as Behavior Critics for Catching Undesirable Agent Behaviors
Lin Guan, Yifan Zhou, Denis Liu, Yantian Zha, Heni Ben Amor, Subbarao Kambhampati
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
Repairing Neural Networks for Safety in Robotic Systems using Predictive Models
Keyvan Majd, Geoffrey Mitchell Clark, Georgios Fainekos, Heni Ben Amor
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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