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Curriculum Vitae - Y. Isabel Liu

Basics

Education

  • 2022.09 - 2026.05

    Princeton, NJ

    Computer Science - Bachelor of Arts
    Princeton University
    Mathematics minor, Optimization & Quantitative Decision Science certificate
    GPA: 3.92
    • Advanced Algorithm Design
    • Theoretical Machine Learning
    • Probability and Stochastic Systems
    • Computing and Optimization
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Honors Linear Algebra

Research

  • 2025.09 - Present
    Student Researcher
    Princeton PRPL Lab
    Belief-space planning with uncertainty-aware skill policies in partially observable task and motion planning. Advisor: Professor Tom Silver.
    • Develop conformant policies by augmenting skill policies with residual RL in POMDPs
  • 2025.06 - Present
    Visiting Student Researcher
    Stanford IPRL Lab
    Dexterous manipulation with touch sensing on high-precision peg assembly and disassembly. Advisor: Professor Jeannette Bohg.
    • Augment VLA models with residual policy using force-torque and tactile feedback
    • Develop slow-fast multimodal networks for real-time control
  • 2024.10 - 2025.05
    Student Researcher
    Princeton PRPL Lab
    Automated learning of robot physical improvisations under TAMP framework. Advisors: Professor Tom Silver and Professor Benjamin Eysenbach.
    • Developed SLAP (Shortcut Learning for Abstract Planning), a 'plug-n-play' module to improve existing task and motion planners' plan execution efficiency
    • Automated the discovery of improvisational shortcuts through model-free learning by exploiting the hierarchical structure of TAMP abstractions
  • 2024.05 - 2025.01
    Student Researcher
    Google Deepmind @ Princeton
    Computational optimizations for hybrid STU-Attention models. Advisor: Professor Elad Hazan.
    • Proposed Flash STU architecture achieving state-of-the-art performance in language modeling
    • Optimized tensordot-based convolution with k fixed spectral filters, reducing computational complexity by a factor of k.

Extracurriculars

  • 2023.10 - Present

    Co-President
    AI@Princeton Club
    Lead student organization for AI research and education at Princeton.
    • Organize annual AI Tiger Trek to San Francisco connecting students with AI researchers and startups
    • Lead weekly student research presentations and professor talks
  • 2023.09 - Present

    Lab TA
    COS Undergraduate Course Assistant Program
    Teaching assistant for Computer Science courses.
    • Hold office hours for COS 226 'Algorithms and Data Structures' and COS 217 'Introduction to Programming Systems'