Jingtian Ji

§ Robotics · Machine Learning — PhD Student, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Jingtian Ji

Robotics and machine learning — teaching robots to perceive, understand, and act in the real world.

Extreme close-up of a white cat's face in profile, eyes half-closed, whiskers fanned outward, with softly blurred fur in the foreground and a warm, wood-toned background out of focus behind it.
Fig. 01 — 2022

Selected Research

§01Selected Research

All publications

Two ways of seeing the same world — the same close attention to how it actually behaves.
A simulated robot arm reaches for a green cube on a table, surrounded by a dense cloud of red and green wireframe camera-view frustums radiating from many angles.
Fig. 01 — Camera-pose conditioning
A large white-and-red tiered palace complex stands on a hillside under a dramatic sky of dark clouds and a bright cumulus formation, with a flock of birds flying across the foreground, a paved plaza with a metal railing and parked cars below, a snow-capped mountain to the left, and a person in a dark fur-trimmed coat and hat walking across the square in the foreground.
2024
Black-and-white night photograph of a crowded city street, with a child raised above the crowd on an adult's shoulders in the foreground looking up at tall illuminated buildings and a large digital billboard showing an image of a car.
2024

Selected Photographs

§02Selected Photographs

About

§03About

I'm a PhD student in robotics and machine learning, where I work on teaching robots to learn skills from interaction and demonstration. I care about methods that are not only clever on paper but actually hold up on real hardware in the messy real world.

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