Ryan Diaz
University of Minnesota
diaz0329[at]umn.edu
Hello! I am a fourth-year undergraduate student studying computer science and math at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. My research interests include computer vision and general machine learning applications to robotics and robotic manipulation, and I currently do research with Prof. Karthik Desingh at the Robotics: Perception and Manipulation Lab. This past summer, I was at the WashU CSE REU doing research on reinforcement learning for autonomous driving with Prof. Yevgeniy Vorobeychik. I’m always trying to explore new ways to help robots do cool things!
This Fall, I hope to apply to PhD programs in computer science for next year and continue my research journey!
Outside of academics and research, I enjoy cooking, reading, and worldbuilding (as well as procrastinating way too much on actually writing). Whether it be writing papers, writing code, or writing stories, the keyboard always calls…
News
| Dec 28, 2024 | I was named an honorable mention for the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! |
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| Oct 22, 2024 | Our project AugInsert is now live on arXiv! You can find an overview video of the project here. |
| Apr 26, 2024 | This summer I am planning to go to the CSE REU at Washington University in St. Louis to work on algorithms for autonomous vehicle movement! |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Our paper “Evaluating Robustness of Visual Representations for Object Assembly Task Requiring Spatio-Geometrical Reasoning” was accepted to ICRA 2024! |
| Dec 10, 2023 | Presented a video for the Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium at UMN! You can find an abstract of the project and the video here. |
