Shuran Song

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science

Bio

Shuran Song is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, she was faculty at Columbia University. Shuran received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University, BEng. at HKUST. Her research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and robotics. Song’s research has been recognized through several awards, including the Best Paper Awards at RSS’22 and T-RO’20, Best System Paper Awards at CoRL’21, RSS’19, and finalists at RSS, ICRA, CVPR, and IROS. She is also a recipient of the NSF Career Award, Sloan Foundation fellowship as well as research awards from Microsoft, Toyota Research, Google, Amazon, and JP Morgan.

To learn more about Shuran’s work, please visit: https://shurans.github.io/

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science

Honors & Awards

Research Scholar, Google (2023)
Gabilan Faculty Fellow, Stanford (2023)
Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, Microsoft (2021)
Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2022)
Career Award, National Science Foundation (2022)

Contact

Academic
shuran@stanford.edu

University - Faculty Department: Electrical Engineering Position: Asst Professor

Additional Info

Mail Code: 9505
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-7356

2023-24 Courses

Robot Perception: Hardware, Algorithm, and Application
CS 227A, EE 227 (Win)
Sensorimotor Learning for Embodied Agents
EE 381 (Aut)
Independent Studies (6)
- Master's Thesis and Thesis Research
  EE 300 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering
  EE 191 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering
  EE 391 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering (WIM)
  EE 191W (Win, Spr)
- Special Studies or Projects in Electrical Engineering
  EE 190 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Special Studies or Projects in Electrical Engineering
  EE 390 (Aut, Win, Spr)

Stanford Advisees

Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Julia Di, Fadhil Ginting
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Yifan Hou
Doctoral (Program)
Zeyi Liu, Chuer Pan, Austin Patel, Mandi Zhao

All Publications

AuRo special issue on large language models in robotics guest editorial AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Xia, F., Ichter, B., Song, S., Hausman, K. 2023

View details for DOI 10.1007/s10514-023-10153-1

View details for Web of Science ID 001104419300001
TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Wu, J., Antonova, R., Kan, A., Lepert, M., Zeng, A., Song, S., Bohg, J., Rusinkiewicz, S., Funkhouser, T. 2023

View details for DOI 10.1007/s10514-023-10139-z

View details for Web of Science ID 001101530300001
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH Chi, C., Burchfiel, B., Cousineau, E., Feng, S., Song, S. 2023

View details for DOI 10.1177/02783649231201201

View details for Web of Science ID 001060705200001
CoWs on PASTURE: Baselines and Benchmarks for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Navigation Gadre, S., Wortsman, M., Ilharco, G., Schmidt, L., Song, S., IEEE IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2023: 23171-23181

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.02219

View details for Web of Science ID 001062531307048
Pick2Place: Task-aware 6DoF Grasp Estimation via Object-Centric Perspective Affordance He, Z., Chavan-Dafle, N., Huh, J., Song, S., Isler, V., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 7996-8002

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160736

View details for Web of Science ID 001048371101047
TANDEM3D: Active Tactile Exploration for 3D Object Recognition Xu, J., Lin, H., Song, S., Ciocarlie, M., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 10401-10407

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161091

View details for Web of Science ID 001048371103016
Built to Order: A Virtual Reality Interface for Assigning High-Level Assembly Goals to Remote Robots Wang, P., Jain, S., Li, M., Aoyama, S., Wang, X., Song, S., Liu, J., Feiner, S., Spencer, S. N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2023

View details for DOI 10.1145/3607822.3618005

View details for Web of Science ID 001138802600036
TANDEM: Learning Joint Exploration and Decision Making With Tactile Sensors IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS Xu, J., Song, S., Ciocarlie, M. 2022; 7 (4): 10391-10398

View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2022.3193466

View details for Web of Science ID 000836638000001
Learning Pneumatic Non-Prehensile Manipulation With a Mobile Blower IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS Wu, J., Sun, X., Zeng, A., Song, S., Rusinkiewicz, S., Funkhouser, T. 2022; 7 (3): 8471-8478

View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2022.3187833

View details for Web of Science ID 000838455200019
Universal Manipulation Policy Network for Articulated Objects IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS Xu, Z., He, Z., Song, S. 2022; 7 (2): 2447-2454

View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2022.3142397

View details for Web of Science ID 000748371300013
Scene Editing as Teleoperation: A Case Study in 6DoF Kit Assembly Li, Y., Agrawal, S., Liu, J., Feiner, S. K., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2022: 4773-4780

View details for DOI 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982158

View details for Web of Science ID 000908368203072
DextAIRity: Deformable Manipulation Can be a Breeze Xu, Z., Chi, C., Burchfiel, B., Cousineau, E., Feng, S., Song, S., Hauser, K., Shell, D., Huang, S. RSS FOUNDATION-ROBOTICS SCIENCE & SYSTEMS FOUNDATION. 2022

View details for Web of Science ID 000827625700017
Iterative Residual Policy for Goal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects Chi, C., Burchfiel, B., Cousineau, E., Feng, S., Song, S., Hauser, K., Shell, D., Huang, S. RSS FOUNDATION-ROBOTICS SCIENCE & SYSTEMS FOUNDATION. 2022

View details for Web of Science ID 000827625700016
Continuous Scene Representations for Embodied AI Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., Mottaghi, R., IEEE COMP SOC IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2022: 14829-14839

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01443

View details for Web of Science ID 000870783000041
Sim2Real in Robotics and Automation: Applications and Challenges IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Hofer, S., Bekris, K., Handa, A., Gamboa, J., Mozifian, M., Golemo, F., Atkeson, C., Fox, D., Goldberg, K., Leonard, J., Karen Liu, C., Peters, J., Song, S., Welinder, P., White, M. 2021; 18 (2): 398-400

View details for DOI 10.1109/TASE.2021.3064065

View details for Web of Science ID 000638401500001
Leveraging SE(3) Equivariance for Self-Supervised Category-Level Object Pose Estimation Li, X., Weng, Y., Yi, L., Guibas, L., Abbott, A., Song, S., Wang, H., Ranzato, M., Beygelzimer, A., Dauphin, Y., Liang, P. S., Vaughan, J. W. NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS). 2021

View details for Web of Science ID 000922928206048
Dynamic Grasping with Reachability and Motion Awareness Akinola, I., Xu, J., Song, S., Allen, P. K., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 9422-9429

View details for DOI 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636057

View details for Web of Science ID 000755125507051
AdaGrasp: Learning an Adaptive Gripper-Aware Grasping Policy Xu, Z., Qi, B., Agrawal, S., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 4620-4626

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560833

View details for Web of Science ID 000765738803090
Spatial Intention Maps for Multi-Agent Mobile Manipulation Wu, J., Sun, X., Zeng, A., Song, S., Rusinkiewicz, S., Funkhouser, T., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 8749-8756

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561359

View details for Web of Science ID 000771405402016
Visual Perspective Taking for Opponent Behavior Modeling Chen, B., Hu, Y., Kwiatkowski, R., Song, S., Lipson, H., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 13678-13685

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9562028

View details for Web of Science ID 000771405405041
SSCNav: Confidence-Aware Semantic Scene Completion for Visual Semantic Navigation Liang, Y., Chen, B., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 13194-13200

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560925

View details for Web of Science ID 000771405404128
Act the Part: Learning Interaction Strategies for Articulated Object Part Discovery Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 15732-15741

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.01546

View details for Web of Science ID 000798743205090
GarmentNets: Category-Level Pose Estimation for Garments via Canonical Space Shape Completion Chi, C., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 3304-3313

View details for DOI 10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.00331

View details for Web of Science ID 000797698903051
TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects With Residual Physics IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Zeng, A., Song, S., Lee, J., Rodriguez, A., Funkhouser, T. 2020; 36 (4): 1307-1319

View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2020.2988642

View details for Web of Science ID 000557702400018
Grasping in the Wild: Learning 6DoF Closed-Loop Grasping From Low-Cost Demonstrations IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS Song, S., Zeng, A., Lee, J., Funkhouser, T. 2020; 5 (3): 4978-4985

View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2020.3004787

View details for Web of Science ID 000546883300011
Category-Level Articulated Object Pose Estimation Li, X., Wang, H., Yi, L., Guibas, L., Abbott, A., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 3703–12

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00376

View details for Web of Science ID 000620679503093
ClearGrasp: 3D Shape Estimation of Transparent Objects for Manipulation Sajjan, S., Moore, M., Pan, M., Nagaraja, G., Lee, J., Zeng, A., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 3634-3642

View details for Web of Science ID 000712319502079
Learning to See before Learning to Act: Visual Pre-training for Manipulation Lin Yen-Chen, Zeng, A., Song, S., Isola, P., Lin, T., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 7286-7293

View details for DOI 10.1109/icra40945.2020.9197331

View details for Web of Science ID 000712319504126
Spatial Action Maps for Mobile Manipulation Wu, J., Sun, X., Zeng, A., Song, S., Toussaint, M., Bicchi, A., Hermans, T. MIT PRESS. 2020

View details for Web of Science ID 000570976900035
Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly Zakka, K., Zeng, A., Lee, J., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 9404-9410

View details for Web of Science ID 000712319506042
Normalized Object Coordinate Space for Category-Level 6D Object Pose and Size Estimation Wang, H., Sridhar, S., Huang, J., Valentin, J., Song, S., Guibas, L. J., IEEE Comp Soc IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2019: 2637–46

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00275

View details for Web of Science ID 000529484002082
TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics Zeng, A., Song, S., Lee, J., Rodriquez, A., Funkouser, T., Bicchi, A., KressGazit, H., Hutchinson, S. MIT PRESS. 2019

View details for Web of Science ID 000570976800004
DensePhysNet: Learning Dense Physical Object Representations via Multi-step Dynamic Interactions Xu, Z., Wu, J., Zeng, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Song, S., Bicchi, A., KressGazit, H., Hutchinson, S. MIT PRESS. 2019

View details for Web of Science ID 000570976800045
Im2Pano3D: Extrapolating 360 degrees Structure and Semantics Beyond the Field of View Song, S., Zeng, A., Chang, A. X., Savva, M., Savarese, S., Funkhouser, T., IEEE IEEE. 2018: 3847–56

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR.2018.00405

View details for Web of Science ID 000457843603103
Neural Graph Matching Networks for Fewshot 3D Action Recognition Guo, M., Chou, E., Huang, D., Song, S., Yeung, S., Li Fei-Fei, Ferrari, Hebert, M., Sminchisescu, C., Weiss, Y. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2018: 673-689

View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-01246-5_40

View details for Web of Science ID 000594203000040
Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments Chang, A., Dai, A., Funkhouser, T., Halber, M., Niessner, M., Savva, M., Song, S., Zeng, A., Zhang, Y., IEEE IEEE. 2017: 667–76

View details for DOI 10.1109/3DV.2017.00081

View details for Web of Science ID 000454981700071
3DMatch: Learning Local Geometric Descriptors from RGB-D Reconstructions Zeng, A., Song, S., Niessner, M., Fisher, M., Xiao, J., Funkhouser, T., IEEE IEEE. 2017: 199-208

View details for DOI 10.1109/CVPR.2017.29

View details for Web of Science ID 000418371400022