📢 Lab Relocation Notice

Note: The SMART Lab is currently moving to Indiana University Bloomington as of Fall 2025. Some content on this website may be outdated, and updates will be made shortly to reflect our new location and activities. We appreciate your understanding as we complete this transition.

Lab NEWS & Highlights
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January, 2026: A paper titled "Game-Based and Gamified Robotics Education: A Comparative Systematic Review and Design Guidelines" has been accepted to CHI 2026. This paper is collaboration work and led by Dr. Dominic Kao at UIUC.

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January, 2026: Here is the annual review of the SMART Lab in 2025 by the numbers (Link).

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November, 2025: Join the SMART Lab! We are currently recruiting a fully funded Postdoctoral Researcher and PhD Students. Please check HERE for more details.

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September, 2025: Our paper "PRIMT: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Feedback and Trajectory Synthesis from Foundation Models" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as an Oral presentation! Out of 21,575 submissions, only 77 were selected as an Oral (top 0.35%). Congrats, Ruiqi and Larry!


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