Austine R. Oloo
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PhD Student · Embodied AI

Austine R.Oloo

Binghamton University/Computer Science

I am a Computer Science PhD student specializing in Embodied AI. My research bridges high-level symbolic reasoning and low-level sensorimotor control to enable intuitive Human-Robot Interaction — creating robotic systems that collaborate safely and naturally with people. I actively explore how modern foundation models can be grounded in robotic systems as powerful interfaces for perception and action.

AdvisorProf. Shiqi Zhang
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01Research Focus

Building Intelligent
Mobile Manipulators

My work sits at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and AI — with a particular emphasis on their applications in the context of mobile manipulators.

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Spatial Intelligence for Robotics

Empowering Robots to Understand the Real World

Developing methods that enable robots to build rich, semantic understanding of 3D environments — fusing geometric perception with high-level reasoning so that mobile manipulators can interpret scenes, localize objects, and plan actions grounded in spatial awareness.

3D Scene UnderstandingSemantic MappingActive PerceptionFoundation Models
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Skill Learning for Robotics

Enabling Robots to Transform the Real World

Building frameworks for robots to acquire, compose, and generalize manipulation skills — bridging symbolic task planning with learned sensorimotor policies so that mobile manipulators can perform complex, multi-step tasks in unstructured environments.

Task & Motion PlanningSkill CompositionSim-to-Real TransferHuman-Robot Interaction
02Selected Work

Publications

VLM-Grounded Task and Motion Planning With Uncertainty Aware Active Perception

Austine Oloo, Shiqi Zhang

Semantic-Geometric Fusion for Task and Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

Austine Oloo*, Xinwei Guo*, Shiqi Zhang

03Latest

News & Updates

Mar 2026

Submitted to IROS 2026: Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception

Jan 2026

Teaching Assistant for Intelligent Mobile Robotics

Dec 2025

Successfully defended my Master’s thesis

Aug 2025

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to AI

Aug 2025

Started PhD in Computer Science at Binghamton University, advised by Prof. Shiqi Zhang

Feb 2025

Successfully demonstrated autonomous robot navigation system in complex indoor environments

Aug 2024

Started MSc in Computer Science at Binghamton University