Research

Publications

  1. Sep 2026
    Pavel Bushuyeu*1, Yujin Chen*1, Anton Nikolaev*2, Brian Shu*1,3, Igor Molybog1
    *The first four authors contributed equally; their order is alphabetical by surname. 1Hawaiʻi AI Initiative (HawAII), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · 2Independent researcher · 3Purdue University
    A light-bulb replacement benchmark built on NVIDIA Isaac Lab. In one long-horizon episode a Unitree G1 humanoid positions a step ladder under a fixture, climbs it, exchanges a spent bulb for a fresh one, and leaves the spent one in a disposal crate. Twelve subtask environments are scored on difficulty-weighted gates, with reference baselines spanning RSL-RL PPO, zero-shot GR00T N1.7 vision-language-action models, and whole-body controllers.
  2. Jan 2026
    Yosub Shin*1, Michael Buriek*1,2, Boris Sobolev*1,3, Pavel Bushuyeu*1, Vikas Kumar1, Haoyang Xu1, Samuel Watson1, Igor Molybog1
    *Equal contribution. 1University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · 2PwC · 3Cisco

Conferences

  1. Jul 2026
    Poster at the Efficient Multimodal Question Answering workshop, ICML 2026
    Seoul, South Korea · Data-Efficient Curation for Multimodal Reasoning under Fixed Training Protocols
  2. Jun 2026
    Presented with ʻIolani Artificial Intelligence Lab students · Blaisdell Center, Honolulu · 2–3 June 2026
    The video-to-robot teleoperation pipeline for the Unitree G1 built for the ʻIolani workshop on applied ML and humanoid robots.
  3. Dec 2025
    First-place presentation at the Data Curation for Vision Language Reasoning challenge, NeurIPS 2025
    San Diego Convention Center · 6 December 2025 · with Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Boris Sobolev, Vikas Kumar, Haoyang Xu and Samuel Watson

Reviews

  1. 2026
    Reviewer, Efficient Multimodal Question Answering workshop at ICML 2026