Ashton Larkin

I'm a first-year PhD student at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Siddhartha Srinivasa. I'm also a CSGrad4US fellow.

I'm interested in exploring how planning, learning, and control can be combined to enhance robotic manipulation capabilities. I'm also looking for ways to use existing open source tools to create better robotics software.

Before my PhD, I was a software engineer at Open Robotics, Intrinsic, and PickNik Robotics, and a visiting researcher at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2019.

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Announcements

  • September 2024: I started my PhD studies at UW!
  • March 2024: I have been awarded a three year fellowship from the ARCS Foundation (Seattle Chapter).
  • March 2024: I will be attending the University of Washington for my PhD studies this Fall.
  • August 2023: I have been awarded the NSF CSGrad4US fellowship.

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