Ashton Larkin
I'm a robotics PhD student at the University of Utah, advised by Tucker Hermans.
I'm also a CSGrad4US fellow.
I'm interested in leveraging planning, learning and optimization to enhance dexterity in robot manipulators.
I'm excited about trajectory optimization, in-hand manipulation, bimanual manipulation, and contact-rich tasks like assembly and deformable object manipulation.
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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