Timothy Chen

Timothy Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, affiliated with the Multi-Robot Systems Lab and advised by Professor Mac Schwager. His research focuses on creating interpretable and trustworthy algorithms at the intersection of computer vision, controls, machine learning, and robotics. He is best known for his work on radiance field-based robot navigation and perception, including the Splat-Nav and CATNIPS frameworks, as well as the Behavior Predictive Control (BPC) method for training-free imitation learning. He is a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellow and a Stanford School of Engineering Graduate Fellow.