Bio

Colton Crosby is a Ph.D. candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is a Stanford Robotics Center Scholar. His research asks how learned robotics policies can be made reliable once they leave the lab. Rather than retraining a policy to be safer, he focuses on methods that monitor, predict, and recover from policy failures at deployment time. His interests include safety for locomanipulation, multi-robot collaboration, and fault recovery for learned policies. Before Stanford, Colton worked on spacecraft structural dynamics research and flight-project verification as an academic part-time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Honors & Awards

  • Stanford Robotics Center Scholar, Stanford Robotics Center (2026)

Contact

  • Academic
    cjcrosby@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Aeronautics and Astronautics Position: Graduate

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 4035

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Current Research and Scholarly Interests

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics studying how learned robot policies can be made reliable once they leave the lab. Rather than retraining a policy to make it safer, I am interested in methods that monitor a policy as it runs, predict when it is heading toward failure, and recover before that failure occurs. My current interests include safety for locomanipulation, multi-robot collaboration, and fault recovery for learned policies.