
I-Chun (Arthur) Liu
PhD Candidate · University of Southern California
I'm a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme and working closely with Prof. Daniel Seita. My research focuses on 3D representations that help robots learn bimanual manipulation efficiently, enabling two-armed robots to handle complex real-world tasks with less training data. I've done research internships at Google DeepMind and Amazon Robotics, and I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Computer Science from UW–Madison.
News
One paper accepted to RSS 2026!
One paper accepted to ICRA 2026!
One paper accepted to CoRL 2025!
Started as a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind for Summer/Fall 2025.
Passed my PhD qualification exam and was promoted to PhD Candidate!
Publications
* denotes equal contribution. † denotes equal advising.
Research Experience
Student Researcher
Google DeepMind
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025
Mountain View, CA
Developed 3D pre‑training framework for robotic manipulation.
PhD Researcher
USC Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory (RESL)
Aug 2023 – Present
Los Angeles, CA
See Publications for details.
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Robotics
May 2023 – Aug 2023
North Reading, MA
Conducted research on targeted bin picking.
Research Assistant
USC RESL
Jan 2021 – May 2023
Los Angeles, CA
Published three first-author papers on robot manipulation, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning.
Research Assistant
Academia Sinica
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020
Taipei, Taiwan
Researched computer vision topics including object detection and instance segmentation.
Awards
USC 1-Year Fellowship
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Aug 2023
Computer Science Best Research Award
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
May 2023
Service & Mentoring
Mentoring
- Jason Chen · CoRL 2025, ICRA 2026, Current
- Sicheng He (USC → PhD at UC Irvine) · CoRL 2024
- Hanwen Fan (USC → PhD at Iowa State University) · Current
- QJ Tsway · Current
Reviewer
- CoRL 2022–2025
- WAFR 2024
- ICRA 2025–2026
- IROS 2026
Teaching Assistant
- CSCI 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines
Spring 2025 - CSCI 545: Introduction to Robotics
Fall 2024






