Dai Yinlong

"A worshiper of science,
a slave to freedom."

Dai, Yinlong
戴尹龙

Hello! My name is Yǐnlóng DAI. I am a PhD student at Virginia Tech. I am currently working on human robot interaction in the Collaborative Robotics Lab (Collab) directed by Dr. Dylan Losey.

Prior to this, I received my Bachelor's degree with Honors in Computer Science and a minor in Robotics from New York University. I was an undergraduate research assistant at the Generalizable Robotics and AI Lab (GRAIL) under the supervision of Prof. Lerrel Pinto, where I worked on robotic dexterous manipulation. I was also fortunate to work with Prof. Gizem Kayar on surgical simulation and Prof. Qi Lei on medical image classification.

Logs

2026.1 Prepare Before You Act: Learning From Humans to Rearrange Initial States accepted to ICRA 2026.
2024.5 🎓I graduated from New York University.

Research

I'm interested in robotics, computer vision and imitation learning. I work at the intersection of Machine learning and Robotics.

	CASTER: Formalizing Zero-Shot Manipulation from Synthetic Videos as Constrained Optimization Yinlong Dai, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Dylan P. Losey Under Review, 2026 Website
	GraspTwin: Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasp Optimization via a Digital Twin Daniel J. Evans, Yinlong Dai, Simon Stepputtis, Dylan P. Losey Under Review, 2026 Coming soon
	In View or Out of View? A Vision-Aware Filter that Infers and Reacts to the Human's Field of View Mengxue Fu, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Yinlong Dai, Erdem Bıyık, Dylan P. Losey Under Review, 2026 Coming soon
	Assisting for Open-Ended Tasks: Goal-Oriented Shared Autonomy as a Particle Filter Mengxue Fu, Ethan Xu, Sam Iyer-Singh, Yinlong Dai, Michael Hagenow, Dylan P. Losey Under Review, 2026 Coming soon
	From Local Corrections to Generalized Skills: Improving Neuro-Symbolic Policies with MEMO Benjamin A. Christie, Yinlong Dai, Mohammad Bararjanianbahnamiri, Simon Stepputtis, Dylan P. Losey Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 Website code arXiv
	Language Movement Primitives: Grounding Language Models in Robot Motion Yinlong Dai, Benjamin A. Christie, Daniel J. Evans, Dylan P. Losey, Simon Stepputtis Under Review, 2026 Website code arXiv
	Prepare Before You Act: Learning From Humans to Rearrange Initial States Yinlong Dai, Andre Keyser, Dylan P. Losey Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 Website code arXiv
	CIVIL: Causal and Intuitive Visual Imitation Learning Yinlong Dai , Robert Ramirez Sanchez , Ryan Jeronimus, Shahabedin Sagheb, Cara M. Nunez, Heramb Nemlekar, Dylan P. Losey Autonomous Robots (AURO), 2026 Website code arXiv
	HuDOR: Bridging the Human to Robot Dexterity Gap through Object-Oriented Rewards Irmak Guzey, Yinlong Dai, Georgy Savva, Raunaq Bhirangi, Lerrel Pinto Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 Website code arXiv
	OPEN TEACH: A Versatile Teleoperation System for Robotic Manipulation Aadhithya Iyer, Zhuoran Peng, Yinlong Dai, Irmak Guzey, Siddhant Haldar, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 Website code arXiv
	See to Touch: Learning Tactile Dexterity through Visual Incentives Irmak Guzey, Yinlong Dai, Ben Evans, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 Website code arXiv
	Exploring Minimally Sufficient Representation in Active Learning through Label-Irrelevant Patch Augmentation Zhiyu Xue, Yinlong Dai, Qi Lei Proceedings of the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (PMLR), 2024 Website PDF