Jaden Clark
I am an incoming PhD student in AI and robotics at Stanford supported by the Knight-Hennessy Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I previously completed my undergrad at Stanford where I worked with Dr. Dorsa Sadigh, Dr. Mac Schwager, and Dr. Karen Liu. My primary research interests are in learning for decision making and robotics.
I am also excited about using computational tools from robotics and AI to study animals and the ocean. I currently work at MBARI developing new algorithms for agile underwater vehicles. I also collaborate heavily with Dr. Mario Espinoza at Universidad de Costa Rica to develop low cost technoology to study and conserve marine animals. I previously studied movement ecology of large marine animals with Dr. Barbara Block at Stanford, and flight biomechanics with Dr. Tim Higham at UC Riverside.
Tagging a nurse shark in Santa Elena Bay, Costa Rica
Recent updates!
- January 2025: LGPL accepted to ICRA 2025
- October 2024: Presented GRIT at IROS in Abu Dhabi and FLAIR at ECCV in Milan
- July 2024: Back in Santa Elena Bay, Costa Rica leading a SSR team to survey Nurse Sharks with drones. We are featured by Stanford Doerr School and ABC news
- June 2024: Graduate from Stanford
- April 2024: Explore until Confident accepted to RSS
- January 2024: GRIT is accepted to RA-L
- November 2023: Led live demo for Hands-On Robotics at CoRL 2023
- August 2023: Collaboration with Stanford Children’s Hospital is covered by Stanford Report, ABC, NBC, Univision, Telemundo, etc
- July 2023: Started internship at Outrider AI with Dr. Ross Knepper
- January 2023: Co-teaching Stanford Intro to AI Robotics Independent Study with Gabrael Levine
- December 2022: Led live demo for Hands-On Robotics in New Zealand at CoRL 2022
- July 2022: Fieldwork in Santa Elena Bay Costa Rica tagging sharks, rays, and turtles
- April 2022: Sailed 3000 nautical miles through the Central Pacific to Palmyra Atoll
- May 2021: Paper on Draco flight dynamics accepted to ICB