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Ian Chuang



About Me

I am an EECS PhD student at UC Berkeley. I currently work with Prof. Iman Soltani and Prof. Claire Tomlin.

Publications

  1. Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers
    Ian Chuang, Jinyu Zou, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, and Iman Soltani
    ICRA 2026
    PDF Project Page

  2. VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
    Dechen Gao, Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, and Iman Soltani
    ICLR 2026
    PDF Code Project Page

  3. Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning
    Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, and Iman Soltani
    arXiv 2025
    PDF

  4. Mechanistic Interpretability for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models
    Bear Häon, Kaylene Stocking, Ian Chuang, and Claire Tomlin
    CoRL 2025
    PDF Project Page

  5. Active Vision Might Be All You Need: Exploring Active Vision in Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
    Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Mahdi Naddaf, and Iman Soltani
    ICRA 2025
    PDF

  6. InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation
    Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Ling-Yuan Chen, and Iman Soltani
    CoRL 2024
    PDF

  7. Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection
    Amin Ghafourian, Zhongying CuiZhu, Debo Shi, Ian Chuang, Francois Charette, Rithik Sachdeva, and Iman Soltani
    IEEE RA-L
    PDF Code

  8. "What Will You Do Next?" Designing and Evaluating Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees for Projection-Level XAI
    Tammer Barkouki, Ian Chuang, and Stephen K. Robinson
    HRI 2024 LBR
    PDF Code

  9. Mixed Reality Handheld Displays for Robot Control: A Comparative Study
    Vera Memmesheimer, Ian Chuang, Bahram Ravani, and Achim Ebert
    AHFE 2024
    PDF Best Paper Student Award

Projects

  1. HOMESTRI-UR
    ROS Workspace for UR5e Robots in HRVIP Lab and HOMESTRI
    Code

  2. LARA-Aubo-Robot
    ROS Environment for Aubo Robots in LARA
    Code

  3. space_habitat_robotics_framework
    ROS environment for Viper X 300 arms
    Code

  4. Manipulator-Mujoco
    Template for controlling any robot arm in Mujoco with operational space control
    Code

  5. HOMESTRI-Explanation-BTs
    ROS Docker workspace for running explainable behavior trees for UR5e robot in HOMESTRI.
    Code

  6. OnRobot-RG2FT-ROS
    ROS driver for OnRobot RG2-FT Gripper
    Code

  7. robotiq
    ROS driver for Robotiq 2F-85 Gripper
    Code

  8. dh_gripper_ros
    ROS driver for DH Robotics AG95 Gripper
    Code

  9. KWR75-Force-Sensor-ROS
    ROS driver for KWR75 Force Torque Sensor
    Code

  10. RoboFroggy
    ECS189L Group Project for a Unity 2D Side scrolling game
    Code

  11. Heart-Disease-Prediction
    ECS171 Machine Learning group project to predict likelihood of heart disease
    Code

  12. AlgorithmVisualizer
    React app to visualize sorting, graph, and maze generation algorithms
    Code

  13. Twitter-From-Scratch
    Twitter-like app built from scratch with ReactJS, Redux, and Firebase
    Code