Jaden Clark

I am a Masters Student in AI and robotics at Stanford and am advised by Dr. Dorsa Sadigh and Dr. Mac Schwager. I work on agile quadrupeds with Dr. Karen Liu and the team at Hands-On Robotics. 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 animal behavior and collaborate heavily with Dr. Mario Espinoza at Universidad de Costa Rica. 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
• November 2024: Talk on preference learning for CS 123
• October 2024: Presented GRIT at IROS in Abu Dhabi and FLAIR at ECCV in Milan
• June 2024: Back in Santa Elena Bay, Costa Rica to survey Nurse Sharks with drones w/SSR. We are featured by Stanford Doerr School and ABC news
• April 2024: Explore-EQA 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 and gave a talk on search-based planning at ADCL at CU Boulder
• January 2023: Co-teaching Stanford Intro to AI Robotics Independent Study with Gabrael Levine
• December 2023: Led live demo for Hands-On Robotics in New Zealand at CoRL 2023
• 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