I am a first-year CS PhD student at NYU Courant advised by Lerrel Pinto. My research is supported by the NDSEG Fellowship. I'm currently working on dexterous robot manipulation with multifingered hands. Previously, I graduated from UChicago with a 4-year joint BS/MS in Applied Math and CS, working with Matthew Walter at TTIC.
@article{wu2026hug,
title={Human Universal Grasping},
author={Kevin Yuanbo Wu and Tianxing Zhou and Isaac Tu and Billy Yan and Irmak Guzey and David Fouhey and Dandan Shan and Lerrel Pinto},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.17054},
year={2026}
}
@inproceedings{cui2026cap,
title={Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models},
author={Zichen Jeff Cui and Omar Rayyan and Haritheja Etukuru and Bowen Tan and Zavier Andrianarivo and Zicheng Teng and Yihang Zhou and Krish Mehta and Nicholas Wojno and Kevin Yuanbo Wu and Manan H. Anjaria and Ziyuan Wu and Manrong Mao and Guangxun Zhang and Binit Shah and Yejin Kim and Soumith Chintala and Lerrel Pinto and Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah},
booktitle={Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
year={2026}
}
@inproceedings{ayalew2025progressor,
title={PROGRESSOR: A Perceptually Guided Reward Estimator with Self-Supervised Online Refinement},
author={Tewodros W. Ayalew and Xiao Zhang and Kevin Yuanbo Wu and Tianchong Jiang and Michael Maire and Matthew R. Walter},
booktitle={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
year={2025}
}
@article{wu2024emergenet,
title={Emergenet: A Digital Twin of Sequence Evolution for Scalable Emergence Risk Assessment of Animal Influenza A Strains},
author={Kevin Yuanbo Wu and Jin Li and Aaron Esser-Kahn and Ishanu Chattopadhyay},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17154},
year={2024}
}