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

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

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2024-25 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Asynchronously Assigning, Monitoring, and Managing Assembly Goals in Virtual Reality for High-Level Robot Teleoperation Aoyama, S., Liu, J., Wang, P., Jain, S., Wang, X., Xu, J., Song, S., Tversky, B., Feiner, S., IEEE Comp Soc IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2024: 450-460

    View details for DOI 10.1109/VR58804.2024.00066

    View details for Web of Science ID 001212781000071

  • 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

  • Tracking and Reconstructing Hand Object Interactions from Point Cloud Sequences in the Wild Chen, J., Yan, M., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Li, X., Weng, Y., Yi, L., Song, S., Wang, H., Williams, B., Chen, Y., Neville, J. ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 2023: 304-312

    View details for Web of Science ID 001243759700034

  • XSkill: Cross Embodiment Skill Discovery Xu, M., Xu, Z., Chi, C., Veloso, M., Song, S., Tan, J., Toussaint, M., Darvish, K. JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001221201503032

  • Scaling Up and Distilling Down: Language-Guided Robot Skill Acquisition Ha, H., Florence, P., Song, S., Tan, J., Toussaint, M., Darvish, K. JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001221201503044

  • REFLECT: Summarizing Robot Experiences for FaiLure Explanation and CorrecTion Liu, Z., Bahety, A., Song, S., Tan, J., Toussaint, M., Darvish, K. JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001221201503029

  • Rearrangement Planning for General Part Assembly Li, Y., Zeng, A., Song, S., Tan, J., Toussaint, M., Darvish, K. JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001221201500006

  • DATACOMP: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets Gadre, S., Ilharco, G., Fang, A., Hayase, J., Smyrnis, G., Thao Nguyen, Marten, R., Wortsman, M., Ghosh, D., Zhang, J., Orgad, E., Entezari, R., Daras, G., Pratt, S., Ramanujan, V., Bitton, Y., Marathe, K., Mussmann, S., Vencu, R., Cherti, M., Krishna, R., Koh, P., Saukh, O., Ratner, A., Song, S., Hajishirzi, H., Farhadi, A., Beaumont, R., Oh, S., Dimakis, A., Jitsev, J., Carmon, Y., Shankar, V., Schmidt, L., Oh, A., Neumann, T., Globerson, A., Saenko, K., Hardt, M., Levine, S. NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS). 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001220600007022

  • 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

  • Structure from Action: Learning Interactions for 3D Articulated Object Structure Discovery Nie, N., Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 1222-1229

    View details for DOI 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342135

    View details for Web of Science ID 001133658800127

  • Bag All You Need: Learning a Generalizable Bagging Strategy for Heterogeneous Objects Bahety, A., Jain, S., Ha, H., Hager, N., Burchfiel, B., Cousineau, E., Feng, S., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 960-967

    View details for DOI 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341841

    View details for Web of Science ID 001133658800100

  • TidyBot: Personalized Robot Assistance with Large Language Models Wu, J., Antonova, R., Kan, A., Lepert, M., Zeng, A., Song, S., Bohg, J., Rusinkiewicz, S., Funkhouser, T., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 3546-3553

    View details for DOI 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341577

    View details for Web of Science ID 001133658802091

  • 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

  • Cloth Funnels: Canonicalized-Alignment for Multi-Purpose Garment Manipulation Canberk, A., Chi, C., Ha, H., Burchfiel, B., Cousineau, E., Peng, S., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 5872-5879

    View details for DOI 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161546

    View details for Web of Science ID 001036713004121

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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