Linfeng Zhao

Services & Mentorship

I give academic talks, discuss robotics/AI strategy, and mentor students.

Talks

I have given talks on relevant research topics. Recent talks include:

  • 2025/09: PhD Thesis Defense Talk, Northeastern University, "Learning and Planning with Structured Abstraction for Embodied Decision-Making" (recording to be uploaded)
  • 2025/08: Invited Talk, University of Washington, Dieter Fox's group
  • 2025/08: Invited Talk, Stanford University, Mykel Kochenderfer's Group (SISL)
  • 2025/07: Invited Talk, University of Pennsylvania, Dinesh Jayaraman's group
  • 2025/06: Invited Talk, Tsinghua University, Yi Wu's group
  • 2025/06: Invited Talk, RSS 2025 Workshop, Sense-Plan-Act with Foundation Models (joint talk with Prof. Lawson Wong)
  • 2025/05: Invited Talk, MIT, Luca Carlone's group, "Learning for Structured Embodied Agent with World Modeling and Planning"
  • 2024/11: PhD Thesis Proposal Talk, Northeastern University
  • 2024/11: Invited Talk, Brown Robotics seminar, "Learning for Planning and World Modeling" (slides)
  • 2024/11: Invited Talk, Tsinghua University, "Learning for Planning and World Modeling"
  • 2024/10: Conference Oral Presentation, WAFR 2024, Equivariant Sampling-Based Control
  • 2024/10: Conference Oral Presentation, IROS 2024, Equivariant Graph Planning for Navigation
  • 2024/08: Conference Oral Presentation, RLC 2024, Map-Guided Navigation
  • 2024/04: Invited Talk, Northeastern RL class guest lecture, Learning for Long-horizon Planning (slides)
  • 2024/01: Invited talks at Tsinghua University IIIS & ME (slides)
  • 2022/07: Conference Oral Presentation, Compositional Generalization, ICML 2022 oral (slides)
  • 2022/06: Oral Talk, Symmetric Planning, RSS 2022 workshop spotlight
  • 2022/05: Oral Talk, Compositional Generalization, ICRA 2022 workshop oral

Feel free to reach out via the contact page if you're interested in scheduling a talk.

Mentorship & Collaboration

I'm open to mentoring students and research collaborations, especially on relevant topics at Stanford University. Please reach out via the contact page if you'd like to discuss working together.

Service

I actively serve the academic community through:

  • Reviewing: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, JAIR
  • Organizing: Workshops at major conferences