James A. Preiss
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James A. Preiss

Google Scholar ID: wI_PD2EAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
RoboticsMachine LearningControlOptimization
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Publications
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Fast Non-Episodic Adaptive Tuning of Robot Controllers with Online Policy Optimization
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • - Publication: MAGIC-VFM - Meta-Learning Adaptation for Ground Interaction Control With Visual Foundation Models (IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024)
  • - Co-developed the Crazyswarm platform to control 49+ quadrotors from one PC, widely used in universities worldwide for multi-robot research
  • - Other open-source libraries listed on personal website
Research Experience
  • - Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science
  • - Postdoc, Caltech Computing + Mathematical Sciences, working with Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung, and Adam Wierman
  • - Developed software for 3D scanning & processing at Geomagic
  • - Developed interactive statistics software at the JMP division of SAS Institute
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2022, Advisor: Gaurav S. Sukhatme
  • - B.A.S. with concentrations in Mathematics and Photography, The Evergreen State College
Background
  • Research interests include robotics, machine learning, optimization, control, and their intersections, aiming to develop robot learning into a general-purpose tool, building algorithms that can learn control policies for diverse tasks and hardware without extensive per-task manual tuning.
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