Everest Yang

I am a CS student at Brown University, advised by Prof. George Konidaris. I was honored to receive the 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

I also work with Prof. Igor Shuryak at Columbia University Irving Medical Center on ML for oncology. Previously, I interned at Netflix, Anduril Industries, Zeta Surgical, AWS, and NASA.

I am broadly interested in robot manipulation, world models, and reinforcement learning. My research goal is to build general-purpose policies that enable robots to act robustly in the real world.

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Everest Yang
News

[Jul 2026] Excited to be joining Netflix Research this fall
[Jun 2026] Two papers accepted to workshops at RSS (R-WM & DAROMA)
[May 2026] Honored to be named a 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
[May 2026] Started as an ML Engineer Intern at Anduril Industries
[Apr 2026] Our work on causal ML for gliomas was accepted to Nature Scientific Reports

Research

Robotics

Changepoint-Aware World Models Changepoint-Aware World Models: Detecting Dynamics Shifts and Recovering by Forgetting Stale Replay in Model-Based RL
E. Yang.
RSS Workshop on Robot World Models (R-WM), 2026.
Topology-Agnostic Mesh Reconstruction Topology-Agnostic Mesh Reconstruction of Deformable Objects from Sparse Touch
E. Yang.
RSS Workshop on Deformable and Articulated Robotic Object Manipulation (DAROMA), 2026.
Deformable State Estimation Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability
E. Yang, S. Thompson, G.D. Konidaris.
ICRA Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Assistants for Surgery (RASEI), 2026.
SkillWrapper SkillWrapper: Autonomously Learning Interpretable Skill Abstractions with Foundation Models
Z. Yang, B. Hedegaard, A. Jaafar, S. Thompson, Y. Wei, E. Yang, H. Fu, S.S. Raman, S. Tellex, G. Konidaris, D. Paulius, N. Shah.
RSS Workshop on Learned Robot Representations (RoboReps), 2025.

Other Topics

Causal ML for gliomas Estimating Temporal Treatment-Effect Patterns of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy in Lower-Grade Gliomas Using Causal ML
E. Yang, S. Agrawal, C.J. Kinslow, S.K. Cheng, L. Yang, E. Wang, T.J. Wang, L.A. Kachnic, D.J. Brenner, I. Shuryak.
Nature Scientific Reports, 2026.
CAST CAST: Time-Varying Treatment Effects with Application to Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy on Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
E. Yang, R. Vasishtha, L.K. Dad, L.A. Kachnic, A. Hope, E. Wang, X. Wu, Y. Yuan, D.J. Brenner, I. Shuryak.
ACM-BCB, 2026. Also at 3 NeurIPS Workshops (AI4Science, CauScien, TS4H), 2025.
ISS Wi-Fi survey by Astrobee Wi-Fi Signal Survey of the International Space Station by Autonomous Free-Flying Robot
E. Yang, S.U. Hwu, C. Lansdowne, J.P. Boster, K. deSilva.
IEEE WiSEE / Featured on NASA Homepage, 2024.

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