Department of Computer Science
Room 231
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424
Michael received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and B.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2004. Previously, Michael was with the robotics team at Google DeepMind (and formerly Google Brain), was an assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington, and was a staff researcher within the Robotics Section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Michael's research interest is within the areas of Robotics, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, focusing on visual representation learning and robot (action policy) learning. A list of selected research projects include: LLaRA, BLIP-3-Video, RT-2, RT-1, Token Turning Machines, TokenLearner, and more.