Kashu Yamazaki
Ph.D. Student · Language Technologies Institute, CMU
I am a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, advised by Dr. Katerina Fragkiadaki within the REAL Center.
Before my Ph.D., I was a research associate at AICV Lab (U of Arkansas) and a visiting scholar with the MLSP Group (CMU). I hold an M.S. in CS (2023) and a B.S. in ME with Summa Cum Laude (2020), both from the University of Arkansas.
Recent News
- Mar 16, 2026📈 Achieved a total of 2000 citations.
- Feb 21, 2026🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to CVPR 2026.
- Feb 12, 2026🚀 ExtremControl has been released!
- Jan 31, 2026🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to ICRA 2026.
- Jan 26, 2026🎉 RobotArena ∞ accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Jan 9, 2026🎤 Gave an invited talk at AIST. Thanks to Dr. Takuma Yagi.
- Nov 7, 2025🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to AAAI 2026.
- Oct 27, 2025🚀 RobotArena ∞ has been released. We welcome contributions!
- Oct 4, 2025🎤 Gave an invited talk at Spatial AI. Thanks to Dr. Ken Sakurada.
- Aug 24, 2025🏆 Selected for Forbes Japan 30 Under 30 in Science & Social.
- Aug 24, 2025📈 Achieved a total of 1500 citations.
- May 20, 2025🦾 Joined Genesis AI for summer internship.
- Feb 2, 2025📈 Achieved a total of 1000 citations.
- Jan 16, 2025🎤 Gave an invited talk at AIC, Keio University. Thanks to Dr. Hideo Saito.
- Dec 18, 2024🚀 Genesis has been released. We welcome contributions!
- Sep 25, 2024🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024 (Poster).
- Aug 9, 2024🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to Remote Sensing.
- Jul 1, 2024🍻 One co-authored paper accepted to ECCV 2024 (Poster).
- Jun 25, 2024🏆 First-author paper selected as Best Paper Award by Brain Science.
- Apr 9, 2024🍻 Extended abstract for OpenFusion accepted at CVPRW 2024.
- Mar 30, 2024📈 Achieved a total of 500 citations.
- Feb 2, 2024🎓 Accepted to the Ph.D. program at LTI, CMU.
- Jan 29, 2024🍻 First-author paper accepted to ICRA 2024 (Oral).
- Aug 15, 2023🎓 Obtained M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas.
- Nov 18, 2022🍻 First-author paper accepted to AAAI 2023 (Oral).
- Dec 18, 2020🎓 Obtained B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arkansas.
Latest Projects
Low-latency humanoid teleoperation with direct extremity control, enabling real-time whole-body manipulation.
Physics-grounded human-human assistance control via multi-agent reinforcement learning for caregiving scenarios.
A generative and universal physics engine for robotics and beyond, supporting diverse simulation tasks at scale.
Scalable robot benchmarking via real-to-sim translation with VLM-guided scoring and human preferences (ICLR 2026).
Real-time open-vocabulary 3D mapping and queryable scene representation (ICRA 2024 Oral).
Transformer-in-Transformer for coherent video paragraph captioning, capturing intra- and inter-event semantics (AAAI 2023 Oral).
Publications
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Awards & Honors
- Forbes Japan 30 Under 30 — Science & Social, 2025
- Best Paper Award — Brain Science, 2024
- Reginald R. "Barney" & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship
- Blanche Bledsoe Rosecrans & Clarence J. Rosecrans, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
- Boles-Vaulx Scholarship
- Charles D. Brock Engineering Scholarship
Academic Services
Patents
- Soft Robotic Laparoscope for Minimally Invasive Intraperitoneal Photodynamic Therapy — USPTO Provisional Patent Application No. 62/967,825, 2020
Contact
- Email: kyamazak@andrew.cmu.edu
- Office: GHC 6413, Carnegie Mellon University
- Open to research collaboration — interest form
- For Ph.D. / research questions: Xplane Slack