Tao Sun

I am a second year PhD student at McGill University and a visiting researcher at Computer Science Department, Princeton University, co-advised by Yi Shao and Szymon Rusinkiewicz.

My research aims to build real-world robotic systems capable of generalized manipulation, especially for assembly tasks in construction industry, using end-to-end learning that leverages data from both real-world and simulation.

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Selected Papers

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WoMAP WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization
Tenny Yin*, Zhiting Mei, Tao Sun, Lihan Zha, Emily Zhou, Jeremy Bao, Miyu Yamane, Ola Shorinwa* Anirudha Majumdar
Under review
Project page / ArXiv

infinigen_sim Infinigen-Sim: Procedural Generation of Articulated Simulation Assets
Abhishek Joshi, Beining Han, Jack Nugent, Yiming Zuo, Jonathan Liu, Hongyu Wen, Stamatis Alexandropoulos, Tao Sun, Alexander Raistrick, Gaowen Liu, Yi Shao, Jia Deng
Under review
ArXiv

waiting for update Rebar Grasp Detection using a Synthetic Model Generator and Domain Randomization
Tao Sun, Beining Han, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Yi Shao
Automation in Construction, 2025
Journal paper

waiting for update Deep Learning-based Rebar Detection and Instance Segmentation in Images
Tao Sun, Qipei Fan, Yi Shao
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2025
Journal paper

waiting for update Robotic Motion Planning for Autonomous In-Situ Construction of Building Structures
Cong Zhao, Jianye Chen, Tao Sun, Wei Fan, Xiaoyan Sun, Yi Shao, Quanqin Guo, Hailong Wang
Automation in Construction, 2025
Journal paper

waiting for update Binocular Video-based 3D Reconstruction and Length Quantification of Cracks in Concrete Structures
Lu Deng, Tao Sun, Liang Yang, Ran Cao
Automation in Construction, 2023
Journal paper

Teaching


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