Hi, welcome!

I am a forth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rice University, advised by Assistant Professor Kaiyu Hang in the Rice Robot π Lab. My research focuses on Robot Self-Identification and Robot Self-Calibration, enabling robots to autonomously understand their own bodies and sensors for reliable real-world manipulation.

Prior to Rice, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2020. During my time at UW, I worked on the MuSHR robotics platform, developing a Multi-Agent Coordination Planner for Multi-Goal Tasks under Professor Siddhartha S. Srinivasa. I also gained industry experience as an application developer at Starbucks, where I contributed to production-scale software systems supporting global operations. Beyond technical work, I served as a volunteer officer for the Thai Students Association, helping organize community events and activities for Thai students at the University of Washington. Outside of research, I enjoy cycling and bouldering.


Selected Projects

ARC-Calib In progress: ARC-Calib: A unified framework for accurate, markerless camera-to-robot calibration.  paper
ManipulationNet A global benchmark for evaluating robots’ manipulation skills and multimodal reasoning.  Website  News  Github
10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition An international competition benchmarking robots’ grasping and manipulation capabilities.  Website  Github  RGMC

Publications

Wearable Roller Rings to Enable Robot Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation through Active Surfaces

Hayden Webb  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Shenli Yuan  |  Kaiyu Hang
IROS 2025.  arXiv  site  video

On the Role of Jacobians in Robust Manipulation

Joshua T. Grace  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kaiyu Hang  |  Aaron M. Dollar
IROS 2025.  paper

rt-RISeg: Real-Time Model-Free Robot Interactive Segmentation for Active Instance-Level Object Understanding

Howard Qian  |  Yiting Chen  |  Gaotian Wang  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kaiyu Hang
IROS 2025.  arXiv  video

Robust Peg-in-Hole Assembly under Uncertainties via Compliant and Interactive Contact-Rich Manipulation

Yiting Chen  |  Kenneth Kimble  |  Howard Qian  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kaiyu Hang
RSS 2025.  rss  video

ARC-Calib: Autonomous Markerless Camera-to-Robot Calibration via Exploratory Robot Motions

Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Yiting Chen  |  Joshua T. Grace  |  Aaron M. Dollar  |  Kaiyu Hang
IROS 2025.  arXiv  video

Direct Self-Identification of Inverse Jacobians for Dexterous Manipulation Through Particle Filtering

Joshua T. Grace  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kaiyu Hang  |  Aaron M. Dollar
ICRA 2024.  PDF  IEEE

Interactive Robot-Environment Self-Calibration via Compliant Exploratory Actions

Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kejia Ren  |  Joshua T. Grace  |  Aaron M. Dollar  |  Kaiyu Hang
IROS 2024.  arXiv  IEEE  video

Non-Parametric Self-Identification and Model Predictive Control of Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Kejia Ren  |  Joshua T. Grace  |  Aaron M. Dollar  |  Kaiyu Hang
IROS 2023.  arXiv  IEEE  video

Kinodynamic rapidly-exploring random forest for rearrangement-based nonprehensile manipulation

Kejia Ren  |  Podshara Chanrungmaneekul  |  Lydia E. Kavraki  |  Kaiyu Hang
ICRA 2023.  arXiv  site  IEEE  video

Work Experience

  • 2022 - present

    Graduate Student Researcher

    Rice Robot π Lab @ Rice University

    Working on Robot Self-Identification and Self-Calibration, enabling robots to autonomously understand their own bodies and sensors for reliable real-world manipulation. Developing benchmarks and competitions to evaluate robots’ manipulation and reasoning skills in real-world settings.

  • 2020 - 2021

    Application Developer

    Starbucks

    Managed, developed, and monitored data pipelines and integrations across Azure, Databricks, Incorta, Hadoop Hive, and Oracle Database for multiple teams.

  • 2020 - 2021

    Undergraduate Researcher

    Personal Robotics Lab @ UW

    Developed a multi-agent coordination planner for Mushr robots, integrating it with navigation systems for real-world task execution. Connected iGibson 3D and Mushr simulators to enable perception-based navigation using real-world sensors and image processing.

  • 2019

    Cloud Service Engineer Intern

    Starbucks

    Built a Swagger API and integrated it with Cosmos DB and Azure AD, enabling efficient internal cloud queries. Developed a CI/CD pipeline to automate Python web app deployment to VMs behind a load balancer.

  • 2017

    Software Engineer Intern

    Agoda

    Developed R scripts to design ad templates and auto-generate summary messages for search engine advertisements. Curated Chinese and Japanese travel-related search queries to enhance Agoda’s landing page and user experience.