I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California Davis, where I am part of the Laboratory for AI, Robotics and Automation (LARA), under the guidance of Dr. Iman Soltani. Before starting my Ph.D., I was a Master’s student at the same lab, and I received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.

My research focuses on developing robotic systems capable of mimicking “real” human behavior and dexterity in complex and unstructured environments. In that regard, my recent works are aimed at bimanual coordination and human-like perception.

I am actively looking for internship opportunities for 2025! Please reach out if your team has any open positions!

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
* indicates equal contribution.

Active Vision Might Be All You Need: Exploring Active Vision in Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Ian Chuang^*, Andrew Lee^*, Dechen Gao, Iman Soltani
Workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation @ CoRL 2024
preprint 2024
project page arXiv code code (VR) video poster (workshop)

tl;dr We introduce AV-ALOHA, a bimanual robot system with 7-DoF active vision that is an extension of ALOHA 2. This system offers an immersive teleoperation experience using VR and serves as a platform to evaluate active vision in imitation learning and manipulation.

InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation

Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Ling-Yuan Chen, Iman Soltani
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
project page arXiv poster

tl;dr InterACT builds on the concept of hierarchical attention mechanisms, capturing and extracting the inter-dependencies between dual-arm joint positions and visual inputs. By doing so, InterACT guides the two arms to perform bimanual tasks with precision—independently yet in seamless coordination.

Graduate Student Researcher at LARA

UC Davis
2023.05 - Present