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Ben Abbatematteo

Assistant Professor of Practice and Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Ben Abbatematteo is an Assistant Professor of Practice with the College of Natural Sciences, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robot Interactive Intelligence (RobIn) Lab supervised by Professor Roberto Martín-Martín. He leads the Robot Learning stream of the Freshman Research Initiative, and conducts research in robotic manipulation and reinforcement learning. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Brown University, and B.S. from the University of Rochester.

Research

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B. Abbatematteo, E. Rosen, S. Thompson, M.T. Akbulut, S. Rammohan, and G.D. Konidaris. Composable Interaction Primitives: A Structured Policy Class for Efficiently Learning Sustained-Contact Manipulation Skills. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024.

A. Bagaria, B. Abbatematteo, O. Gottesman, S. Rammohan & G. Konidaris. Effectively Learning Initiation Sets in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

S.Shaw, B. Abbatematteo, G. Konidaris. RMPs for Safe Impedance Control in Contact-Rich Manipulation. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2022.

B. Abbatematteo, S. Tellex, G. Konidaris. Learning to Generalize Kinematic Models to Novel Objects. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), November 2019.

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Contact Info

Ben Abbatematteo
Assistant Professor of Practice and Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Homepage
abba@cs.utexas.edu
GDC 3.430