Ian Chuang

Ian Chuang

EECS PhD student at UC Berkeley, advised by Claire Tomlin and Iman Soltani.

Publications

Dexterous In-Hand Object Pose Reaching with Learned Safety Filters

Ian Chuang, Hiya Shah, Vamsi Chilamkur, Iman Soltani, Claire Tomlin

arXiv

Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers

Ian Chuang, Jinyu Zou, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Iman Soltani

ICRA 2026

VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy

Dechen Gao, Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, Iman Soltani

ICLR 2026

Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning

Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, Iman Soltani

arXiv

Mechanistic Interpretability for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models

Bear Häon, Kaylene Stocking, Ian Chuang, Claire Tomlin

CoRL 2025

Active Vision Might Be All You Need: Exploring Active Vision in Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Mahdi Naddaf, Iman Soltani

ICRA 2025

InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation

Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Ling-Yuan Chen, Iman Soltani

CoRL 2024

Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection

Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection

Amin Ghafourian, Zhongying CuiZhu, Debo Shi, Ian Chuang, Francois Charette, Rithik Sachdeva, Iman Soltani

IEEE RA-L 2024

"What Will You Do Next?" Designing and Evaluating Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees for Projection-Level XAI

"What Will You Do Next?" Designing and Evaluating Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees for Projection-Level XAI

Tammer Barkouki, Ian Chuang, Stephen K. Robinson

HRI 2024 (Late-Breaking Report)

Mixed Reality Handheld Displays for Robot Control: A Comparative Study

Mixed Reality Handheld Displays for Robot Control: A Comparative Study

Vera Memmesheimer, Ian Chuang, Bahram Ravani, Achim Ebert

AHFE 2024 · Best Paper Student Award

Projects

HOMESTRI-UR

ROS workspace for UR5e robots in the HRVIP Lab and HOMESTRI.

RoboFroggy

Unity 2D side-scrolling game (ECS 189L group project).