Lab NEWS & Highlights
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September, 2026: Our paper titled "PrefO2O: Zero-Shot Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning via Offline-to-Online Latent Preference Transfer" has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE IROS 2026 Human-aware Embodied AI (HEAI). Congrats, Ruiqi!

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August, 2026: Christian Marowski, a new M.S. Student, joins the lab. Welcome, Christian!

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August, 2026: Mohamed Abouagour, Waleed Bin Khalid, Micheale Haileslassie Gebrezgiher, new Ph.D. Students, and Suyeon Hwang, a new Graduate Visiting Student (clockwise from top-left) join the SMART Lab. Welcome, Mohamed, Waleed, Mike, and Suyeon!

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July, 2026: Ike Obi has successfully defended his PhD dissertation "Constrained Mediation for Safe Language- Controlled Robot Systems". Congrats, Dr. Obi!


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