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        Hello. I'm a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm currently a member of the <a href="https://r-pad.github.io/">Robots Perceiving and Doing Lab (RPAD)</a>, where I am advised by Prof. <a href="http://davheld.github.io/">Dave Held</a>. My general research interests are at the intersection of perception and control. Specifically, I center on the control of robotic systems through model-based machine learning to study how machines can be given greater, safer autonomy. 
         
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        During my undergraduate study, I was advised by <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/">Sergey Levine</a> and mentored by <a href="https://nrhinehart.github.io">Nick Rhinehart</a> at the <a href="https://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/">Robotic AI & Learning Lab (RAIL)</a> in UC Berkeley.
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        [<a href="resources/cv.pdf">CV</a>] [<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=cAYgoH4AAAAJ">Google Scholar</a>] [<a href="https://github.com/himty">Github</a>]
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        Contact: jennyw2 (at) andrew.cmu.edu
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<h2>News</h2>

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  <li>Excited to intern at Walt Disney Imagineering!</li>
  <li>Paper accepted to ICRA 2024! <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/tax-posed/home">Learning Distributional Demonstration Spaces for Task-Specific Cross-Pose Estimation</a></li>
  <li>Submitted a paper to ICRA 2024! Stay tuned for updates o-o</li>
  <li>Joined the Robotics Institute at CMU! Excited to work with <a href="http://davheld.github.io/">Dave Held</a> at the <a href="https://r-pad.github.io/">Robots Perceiving and Doing Lab (RPAD)</a></li>
  <li>Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2021! <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ic2">Information is Power: Intrinsic Control via Information Capture</a>.</li>
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<h2>Recent Blog Posts</h2>

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<h2>Publications</h2>

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        <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/tax-posed/home">Learning Distributional Demonstration Spaces for Task-Specific Cross-Pose Estimation</a><br>
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          Jenny Wang*, Octavian Donca*, and David Held<br>
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        <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3623263.3623355">Estimating Yarn Length for Machine-Knitted Structures</a><br>
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          Gabrielle Ohlson, Angelica M. Bonilla Fominaya, Kavya Puthuveetil, <b>Jenny Wang</b>, Emily Amspoker, and James McCann<br>
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        <div class="pubjournal">8th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication
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        <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ic2">Information is Power: Intrinsic Control via Information Capture</a><br>
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          Nicholas Rhinehart, <b>Jenny Wang</b>, Glen Berseth, JD Co-Reyes, Danijar Hafner, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine<br>
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        <div class="pubjournal">Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021)
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