Yuchen Cui

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Joined

October 2019

Names

Yuchen Cui (Preferred)

Emails

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2024 – Present

Postdoc

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2022 – 2024

PhD student

University of Texas, Austin (utexas.edu)

2015 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Dorsa Sadigh

2022 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Scott Niekum

2015 – 2021

Expertise

Inverse Reinforcement Learning

2015 – Present

Learning from Demonstrations for Robotics

2015 – Present

Human Robot Interaction

2015 – Present

Publications

SAMJAM: Zero-Shot Video Scene Graph Generation for Egocentric Kitchen Videos
Joshua Li, Fernando Jose Pena Cantu, Emily Yu, Alexander Wong, Yuchen Cui, Yuhao Chen
- CVPR MetaFood Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
DexEXO: A Wearability-First Dexterous Exoskeleton for Operator-Agnostic Demonstration and Learning
Alvin Zhu, Mingzhang Zhu, Beom Jun Kim, Jose Victor S. H. Ramos, Yike Shi, Yufeng Wu, Raayan Dhar, Fuyi Yang, Ruochen Hou, Hanzhang Fang, Quanyou Wang, Yuchen Cui, Dennis Hong
- ICRA 2026: From Data to Decisions Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Office Hours: A Multiday Office Cubicle Dataset for Associative Embodied VQA
Fernando Jose Pena Cantu, Junfeng Lei, Vani Agrawal, Adrian Ramlal, Chang Liu, Joshua Li, Saeejith Nair, Yifeng Xu, Muhammad Qasim Ali, Alexander Wong, Yuchen Cui, Yuhao Chen
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
- Readers: Everyone
CASPER: Inferring Diverse Intents for Assistive Teleoperation with Vision Language Models
Huihan Liu, Rutav Shah, Shuijing Liu, Jack Pittenger, Mingyo Seo, Yuchen Cui, Yonatan Bisk, Roberto Martín-Martín, Yuke Zhu
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The EMPATHIC Framework for Task Learning from Implicit Human Feedback
Yuchen Cui, Qiping Zhang, Alessandro G Allievi, Peter Stone, Scott Niekum, W. Bradley Knox
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning
- Readers: Everyone
Statistical Guarantees for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning using PAC-Bayes Theory
Zhi Zhang, Chris Chow, Yasi Zhang, Yanchao Sun, Haochen Zhang, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Han Liu, Furong Huang, Yuchen Cui, OSCAR HERNAN MADRID PADILLA
- AISTATS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
FlowRetrieval: Flow-Guided Data Retrieval for Few-Shot Imitation Learning
Li-Heng Lin, Yuchen Cui, Amber Xie, Tianyu Hua, Dorsa Sadigh
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Distilling and Retrieving Generalizable Knowledge for Robot Manipulation via Language Corrections
Lihan Zha, Yuchen Cui, Li-Heng Lin, Minae Kwon, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Andy Zeng, Fei Xia, Dorsa Sadigh
- VLMNM 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2023 Workshop TGR Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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