Aileen Liao

Aileen Liao

CS PhD student in UPenn GRASP. Prev MIT EECS and MechE. Interested in robotics!

Publications

  1. Aileen Liao, Rachel Holladay, Dinesh Jayaraman, Michael Posa. VLM-Focus: Task-Relevant Scene Reduction for Planning and Control in Clutter. CORL. 2026. (under review)
  2. Aileen Liao, Dong Ki Kim, Max Smith, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, and Shayegan Omidshafiei. Delay-Aware Diffusion Policy: Bridging the Observation–Execution Gap in Dynamic Tasks. IROS. 2026. (under review)
  3. Moonyoung Lee, Dong Ki Kim, Jai Krishna Bandi, Max Smith, Aileen Liao, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, and Shayegan Omidshafiei. StageACT: Stage-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Humanoid Door Opening. IROS. 2026. (under review)
  4. Keegan Mendez, Manisha Singh, Patrick Willoughby, Beatrice Ncho, Aileen Liao, Susan Su, Megan Lim, Elijah Lee, Mohamad Alkhouli, Hasan Alarouri, Ellen T. Roche. Design and Validation of a High- Fidelity Left Atrial Cardiac Simulator for the Study and Advancement of Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion. Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology. 2025. 16(3), 279-295.
  5. Jelvani, A., Nia, N. E., Kalyan, G., Yee, A. T., Liao, A., Garcia, J. J., Raleigh, A. R., Miyazaki, S., Yamada, J., Schumacher, B. L., Chen, A. C., Masuda, K., & Sah, R. L. (2024). Site-specific and distinctive early patterns of articular cartilage surface imply progressive states of degeneration in adult rabbit femoral condyles with post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Orthopedic Research Society Annual Meeting, 49.
  6. Lordos, G., Brown, M. J., Latyshev, K., Liao, A., Shah, S., Meza, C., Bensche, B., Cao, C., Chen, Y., Miller, A. S., Mehrotra, A., Rodriguez, J., Mokkapati, A., Cantu, T., Sapozhnikov, K., Rutledge, J., Trumper, D., Kim, S., de Weck, O., . . . Chun, W. (2023). Worms: Field-reconfigurable robots for extreme lunar terrain. 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115833
  7. Lordos, G. C., Brown, M. J., Chen, Y., Meza, C., Liao, A., Rodriguez, J. D., Miller, A. S., Shah, S. M., Mehrotra, A., Cao, C., Bensche, B. M., Salazar, J., do Vale Pereira, P., Weck, O. L. D., & Hoffman, J. A. (2022). Worms: A reconfigurable robotic mobility system for extreme lunar terrain. In Ascend 2022. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-4395
  8. Mendez, K., Singh, M., Liao, A., Su, S., & Roche, E. (2022). Benchtop circulatory flow loop of the left atrium that can achieve tunable, clinically relevant pressure and flow waveforms. CSI FOCUS LAAPFO 2022.
  9. Singh, M., Mendez, K., Su, S., Liao, A., Schmidt, M. J., Bourouiba, L., & Roche, E. (2022). An in vitro model with particle tracking velocimetry that enables visualization of left atrial hemodynamics post left atrial appendage occlusion. CSI FOCUS LAAPFO 2022.
  10. Caffrey, J., Nia, N., Jelvani, A., Gacasan, E., Walsh, K., Hughey, V., Caccam, B., Liao, A., Alvarado-Herrera, E., Mir, N., Chakraborty, M., Drake, R., Wong, V., Chen, A., Masuda, K., & Sah, R. (2020). Joint-scale mechano-pathology in post-traumatic osteoarthritis: Ex vivo imposed gait-like loading of acl-transected rabbit knees induces abnormal kinematics and cartilage degeneration. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28, S236–S237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2020.02.381