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)

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
  • AuRo special issue on large language models in robotics guest editorial AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Xia, F., Ichter, B., Song, S., Hausman, K. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rearrangement Planning for General Part Assembly Li, Y., Zeng, A., Song, S., Tan, J., Toussaint, M., Darvish, K. JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • TANDEM3D: Active Tactile Exploration for 3D Object Recognition Xu, J., Lin, H., Song, S., Ciocarlie, M., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 10401-10407
  • Structure from Action: Learning Interactions for 3D Articulated Object Structure Discovery Nie, N., Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2023: 1222-1229
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Universal Manipulation Policy Network for Articulated Objects IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS Xu, Z., He, Z., Song, S. 2022; 7 (2): 2447-2454
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Continuous Scene Representations for Embodied AI Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., Mottaghi, R., IEEE COMP SOC IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2022: 14829-14839
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dynamic Grasping with Reachability and Motion Awareness Akinola, I., Xu, J., Song, S., Allen, P. K., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 9422-9429
  • AdaGrasp: Learning an Adaptive Gripper-Aware Grasping Policy Xu, Z., Qi, B., Agrawal, S., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 4620-4626
  • 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
  • Visual Perspective Taking for Opponent Behavior Modeling Chen, B., Hu, Y., Kwiatkowski, R., Song, S., Lipson, H., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 13678-13685
  • SSCNav: Confidence-Aware Semantic Scene Completion for Visual Semantic Navigation Liang, Y., Chen, B., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 13194-13200
  • Act the Part: Learning Interaction Strategies for Articulated Object Part Discovery Gadre, S., Ehsani, K., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 15732-15741
  • GarmentNets: Category-Level Pose Estimation for Garments via Canonical Space Shape Completion Chi, C., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2021: 3304-3313
  • 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
  • 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
  • Category-Level Articulated Object Pose Estimation Li, X., Wang, H., Yi, L., Guibas, L., Abbott, A., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 3703–12
  • 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
  • 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
  • Spatial Action Maps for Mobile Manipulation Wu, J., Sun, X., Zeng, A., Song, S., Toussaint, M., Bicchi, A., Hermans, T. MIT PRESS. 2020
  • Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly Zakka, K., Zeng, A., Lee, J., Song, S., IEEE IEEE. 2020: 9404-9410
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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