Jana Pavlasek

Engineering · University of Michigan

Early career · publishing since 2019Rising activity

Robot Manipulation and Learning Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Advanced Neural Network Applications Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Human Pose and Action Recognition

Publications

Citations

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2019

In context

Among 583 early career Engineering PIs within our index

Citations: 25cohort median 150

Publications / year (recent): 3.6cohort median 2.6

Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 18% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 5 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.6/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
"Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned"
IEEE DataPort · 2026
VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
Designing a versatile robot framework for undergraduate robotics education
2025
MBot: A Modular Ecosystem for Scalable Robotics Education
2024
Distributed Inference for Robotic Perception and Planning Under Uncertainty
Deep Blue (University of Michigan) · 2024
Stein Variational Belief Propagation for Multi-Robot Coordination
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
MBot: A Modular Ecosystem for Scalable Robotics Education
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
NARF22: Neural Articulated Radiance Fields for Configuration-Aware Rendering
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2022
Manipulation-Oriented Object Perception in Clutter through Affordance Coordinate Frames
2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) · 2022
NARF22: Neural Articulated Radiance Fields for Configuration-Aware Rendering
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022
Parts-Based Articulated Object Localization in Clutter Using Belief Propagation
2020
Manipulation-Oriented Object Perception in Clutter through Affordance Coordinate Frames
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

Publishes in

arXiv (Cornell University)×12
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×1
ACM / IMS Journal of Data Science×1
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)×1
2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)×1

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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