His research interests span robotics, AI, and computational structural biology. In recent years, he has been working on robot planning and learning under uncertainty and human-robot collaboration. His work won multiple international awards, including, most recently, Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS), 2021. More information on his research is available on the Adaptive Computing Lab (AdaComp) web site.
He has chaired or co-chaired several major international robotics conferences, including WAFR 2004 and 2010, RSS 2015, ICRA 2016, and CoRL 2021. He served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is currently an associate editor of International Journal of Robotics Research.