Publications — Billy Yan

Selected publications.

Senior undergraduate researcher at NYU CILVR with Prof. Lerrel Pinto; focus areas include imitation learning, computer vision, and world models. For related open-source collaborations, see Human Archive and MakerMods.

2026

Human Universal Grasping

Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan, Lerrel Pinto

arXiv preprint, 2026

Under submission

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2025

Zero-shot dexterity for low-cost, tendon-driven robotic hands

Billy Yan

NYU Undergraduate Research Conference (Honor thesis), 2025

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RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning

Anya Zorin, Irmak Guzey, Billy Yan, Aadhithya Iyer, Lisa Kondrich, Nikhil X. Bhattasali, Lerrel Pinto

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025

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