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Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS)
General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab

We study the principles that enable machines to continually acquire concepts from experience and use them to reason and plan in open-ended physical worlds.

Our work brings together artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science, and robotics.

// News

Jiayuan Mao is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027. Please apply to the CIS PhD program at Penn.
CIS 7000: Multi-Modal AI will be offered in Fall 2026.

// Recent Publications

Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers

Jing Ding, Ziqiao Ma, Jiayuan Mao, Joyce Chai, Freda Shi

EMNLP 2026Paper

Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

Jiayuan Mao, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jiajun Wu

Communications of the ACMPaper / CACM

ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG

Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang, Ishaan Ghosh, Jitendra Malik, Cornelia Fermuller, Tingfan Wu, Jiayuan Mao, Ruoshi Liu, Haozhi Qi, Yiannis Aloimonos

ArXiv PreprintPaper / Project Page / Code

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