Jeff Cui 崔梓宸

PhD at NYU Courant
Machine learning & robotics

Jeff Cui

Publications

  1. Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations

    Gaoyue Zhou*, Zichen Jeff Cui*, Ada Langford, Bowen Tan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto

    Preprint, 2026

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  2. YOR: Your Own Mobile Manipulator for Generalizable Robotics

    Manan H Anjaria*, Mehmet Enes Erciyes*, Vedant Ghatnekar, Neha Navarkar, Haritheja Etukuru, Xiaole Jiang, Kanad Patel, Dhawal Kabra, Nicholas Wojno, Radhika Ajay Prayage, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah†, Zichen Jeff Cui†

    Preprint, 2026

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  3. Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

    Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, Haritheja Etukuru, Bowen Tan, Zavier Andrianarivo, Zicheng Teng, Yihang Zhou, Krish Mehta, Nicholas Wojno, Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Manan H Anjaria, Ziyuan Wu, Manrong Mao, Guangxun Zhang, Binit Shah, Yejin Kim, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah

    Preprint, 2026

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  4. DynaMo: In-Domain Dynamics Pretraining for Visuo-Motor Control

    Zichen Jeff Cui, Hengkai Pan, Aadhithya Iyer, Siddhant Haldar, Lerrel Pinto

    NeurIPS 2024

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  5. Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

    Open X-Embodiment Collaboration

    ICRA 2024 · Best Conference Paper Award

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  6. From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data

    Zichen Jeff Cui, Yibin Wang, Mahi Shafiullah, Lerrel Pinto

    ICLR 2023 · Notable Top 5% (Oral)

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  7. Behavior Transformers: Cloning k modes with one stone

    Mahi Shafiullah, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ariuntuya Altanzaya, Lerrel Pinto

    NeurIPS 2022 · Nominated for Outstanding Paper Award

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* Equal contribution. † Co-advisors with equal contribution.

Fun stuff

  • PATH live map · Train schedules
  • Chess analysis board
  • Classifier-free guidance diffusion in 100 lines (code)
  • Timelapse: COVID-19 confirmed cases (link)
  • Fly-by-wire phone remote for Kerbal Space Program (demo | code)
  • Undergraduate thesis: generative adversarial data augmentation for lung nodule detection (writeup)
  • Rocket landing guidance: replicating JPL/SpaceX soft landing optimal control convexification by Açıkmeşe, Blackmore et al. (writeup | simulation)