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!
I will be starting a PhD in Computer Science at Rice University in Fall 2025, working with Prof. Vaibhav Unhelkar at the Human-Centered AI and Robotics Group!
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
| Apr 7, 2025 | I will be starting a CS PhD at Rice University in Fall 2025, advised by Prof. Vaibhav Unhelkar! |
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| Dec 28, 2024 | I was named an honorable mention for the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! |
| 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! |
