Allen Z. Ren

Hi there! I'm a PhD student at Princeton, where I work with Ani Majumdar on robotics. I am also a student researcher at Google DeepMind with Andy Zeng, and currently visiting Dorsa Sadigh's group at Stanford.

I design algorithms that enable robots and other agents to operate safely and robustly under diverse environment variations, thus building trust between humans and robots.

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CoRL Best Student Paper Award

Quanta Magazine article "Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics"

Princeton News article "Machine learning guarantees robots' performance in unknown territory"

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners

Allen Z. Ren, Anushri Dixit, Alexandra Bodrova, Sumeet Singh, Stephen Tu, Noah Brown, Peng Xu, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia, Jake Varley, Zhenjia Xu, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng, Anirudha Majumdar
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023
★ Oral Presentation, Best Student Paper Award, CoRL ★
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Google Research, NYC

Safe Robotics Lab at Princeton

Google Brain Princeton

Apex Lab at SJTU

2022

Dexterous Manipulation Team, Toyota Research Institute

2023

Co-organizer, OOD Workshop, CoRL

2020+

Co-organizer, Princeton Robotics Seminar

Webmaster, Robotics at Princeton

Reviewer, AIJ, T-RO, RA-L, NeurIPS, L4DC, CoRL, ICRA

I am from Jiangsu, China. My Chinese name is 任至意. As much as I want to use my first name in Chinese, Zhiyi, I find it very difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers.

I enjoy watching and playing soccer, hitting the gym, and traveling/backpacking. I am also an aviation enthusiast and hold a private pilot license my story in Chinese. I am a member of the Princeton Flying Club.

Allen Z. Ren

Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners

AdaptSim: Task-Driven Simulation Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Transfer

Learning a Universal Human Prior for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Preference

Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe Reinforcement Learning with Shielding and Generalization Guarantees

Leveraging Language for Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation

FlowDrone: Wind Estimation and Gust Rejection on UAVs Using Fast-Response Hot-Wire Flow Sensors

Failure Prediction with Statistical Guarantees for Vision-Based Robot Control

Distributionally Robust Policy Learning via Adversarial Environment Generation

Stronger Generalization Guarantees for Robot Learning by Combining Generative Models and Real-World Data

Generalization Guarantees for Imitation Learning

Multi-Contact Force-Sensing Guitar for Training and Therapy

Toward Robust Stair Climbing of the Quadruped using Proprioceptive Sensing

Dynamic Traversal of Large Gaps by Insects and Legged Robots Reveals a Template

Legged Robots Change Locomotor Modes To Traverse 3-D Obstacles With Varied Stiffness

I am from Jiangsu, China. My Chinese name is 任至意. As much as I want to use my first name in Chinese, Zhiyi, I find it very difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers.

I enjoy watching and playing soccer, hitting the gym, and traveling/backpacking. I am also an aviation enthusiast and hold a private pilot license my story in Chinese. I am a member of the Princeton Flying Club.

Flying up the Hudson River with N3054E on Dec 30, 2022.