I am a researcher working at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision to equip embodied agents with greater understanding of the world. I'm particularly excited about building systems that generalize — from perception to decision making — across the open-ended complexity of the real world.
Most recently, this has meant building foundation models for robotics: I co-led the release of VLA Foundry, a unified open-source framework for training VLAs at scale, and was a primary contributor to the Large Behavior Models project at TRI.
I have a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, where I worked with the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL advised by Dr. Nicholas Roy, where I spent a lot of time trying to make things fly fast and not hit things. Before that, I received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego.
Email: the.katherine.liu [at] gmail [dot] com