PRPL.Princeton Robot Planning & Learning

Princeton Robot
Planning & Learning

We develop robots that plan and learn to help people.

Our publications are on Google Scholar.

The PRPL robot mascot, holding a feather duster, spatula, magnifying glass, and hammer
A collage of the PRPL group: members standing together in the lab and in a classroom, teleoperating a mobile manipulator, working at a robot workstation, watching a robot arm stack blocks, and holding ice cream cones
The PRPL group Princeton, NJ

News

Team

Portrait of Tom Silver

Tom Silver

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, ECE

Portrait of Yixuan Huang

Yixuan Huang

Postdoc

ECE

Portrait of Zahra Bashir

Zahra Bashir

PhD Student

UBC (co-advised by Kelsey Allen)

Portrait of Minseo Kwon

Minseo Kwon

PhD Student

ECE

Portrait of Josh Roy

Josh Roy

PhD Student

ECE

Portrait of Qianwei Wang

Qianwei (Robin) Wang

PhD Student

ECE

Portrait of Divija Durga

Divija Durga

Undergraduate

Senior thesis, ECE

Portrait of Tomasz Sadowy

Tomasz Sadowy

Undergraduate

Senior thesis, Computer Science

Visitors & External Collaborators

Alumni

Furry Friends

Bigio, a gray cat with yellow eyes, resting his chin on a cushion

Bigio

Advisor: Matteo Merler

Dundun, a black-and-white border collie, lying on a driveway with tongue out

Dundun

Advisor: Qianwei (Robin) Wang

Hugo, a tabby cat, looking down at the camera

Hugo

Advisor: Qianwei (Robin) Wang

Lizzie, a small white dog, in front of cherry blossoms with ears blowing in the wind

Lizzie

Advisor: Minseo Kwon

Mimi, an orange-and-white kitten, climbing in a tree

Mimi

Advisor: Qianwei (Robin) Wang

Nomsy, a tan dog, smiling and wearing a New York Jets bandana

Nomsy

Advisor: Tom Silver

Teemo, a brown-and-white Australian shepherd, standing on a fallen log in the woods

Teemo

Advisor: Bowen Li

Open-source code

All of our code is open source. There is a lot more on the lab GitHub and on Tom's GitHub.

Joining the lab

Prospective PhD students
Apply directly to Princeton ECE and mention Tom Silver in your application. There is no need to email ahead of time, although you are welcome to.
Prospective postdocs
We are not actively looking for postdocs right now, but reach out if you are interested.
Current Princeton students
If you are interested in doing research with us, email Tom with your CV, your transcript, and a short note about which part of our work interests you.
Graduate students at other institutions
You may be able to visit us through Princeton’s Visiting Student Research Collaborator program. Reach out if you are interested. We do not do remote internships.
Everyone else
Unfortunately, we cannot work with high school students, undergraduates at other institutions, or people looking for research assistantships, even self-funded ones. We apologize for not responding to emails about these.