Nader Zantout
I am a second year Master’s of Science in Robotics student at the Robotics Institute, within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I conduct research as part of the Field Robotics Center in collaboration with the AirLab, co-advised by Ji Zhang and Wenshan Wang. My research interests include 3D semantic scene understanding, vision-language navigation, and language-conditioned action policies.
I graduated with high distinction from the American University of Beirut with a B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where I worked with Naseem Daher on pothole detection and avoidance for autonomous cars, and with Imad Elhajj on assistive teleoperation.
news
| Jan 27, 2025 | Our benchmark paper on interactive referential grounding, IRef-VLA, was accepted to ICRA 2025! |
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| Oct 19, 2024 | I co-presented our vision-language navigation system at our IROS 2024 Workshop, AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems. Read the workshop recap here. |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Our dataset paper, VLA-3D, was accepted for presentation at the RSS SemRob 2024 Workshop! Read about our dataset here. |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Our workshop, AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems was accepted to IROS 2024! We also announce the CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge, read about it here. |