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Joe H. Doerr

PhD Student · Rutgers University, New Brunswick · jhd79@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Rutgers, advised by Professor Kostas Bekris. I am interested in solving difficult robot manipulation problems for practical deployment. I am invested in the direction of robot learning to address these problems, specifically reinforcement learning as it is a compelling path toward scalable robot behavior generation.

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Research projects

  1. Sequencing Diversified Policy Variants For Targeted Object Retrieval From Cluttered Shelves

    In preparation for submission to CORL 2026

    Joe H. Doerr, (other authors order TBD), Kostas E. Bekris

  2. Robot Motion Generation: Explicit to Implicit Models and Methods

    In preparation for submission to IJRR 2026

    Joe H. Doerr*, Patrick Meng*, Sumanth Tangirala*, Kostas E. Bekris

  3. Integrating Model-based Control and RL for Zero-shot Transfer of Tight Insertion Policies

    Accepted into ICRA 2025

    Isidoros Marougkas*, Dhruv Metha Ramesh*, Joe H. Doerr, Edgar Granados, Aravind Sivaramakrishnan, Abdeslam Boularias, and Kostas E. Bekris

  4. The State of Robot Motion Generation

    Accepted into ISRR 2024

    Kostas E. Bekris, Joe H. Doerr, Patrick Meng, Sumanth Tangirala

  5. Multiplane light conversion design with physical neural network

    Accepted into Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging 2022

    Zheyuan Zhu, Joe H. Doerr, Guifang Li, Shuo Pang