I am a Computer Science PhD student at UW Madison. My PhD advisor is Michael Gleicher.
I received my BS and MS degrees from UC San Diego, where I worked with Pamela Cosman and Xinyu Zhang.
My research lies at the intersection of robotics and computer vision, where I primarily work on robot perception. Recently, I have been using time-of-flight proximity sensors to solve robot sensing problems.
Publications
Using a Distance Sensor to Detect Deviations in a Planar Surface
Carter Sifferman, William Sun, Mohit Gupta, Michael Gleicher
RA-L, 2024 / To Appear: ICRA, 2025
project page / bibtex
By utilizing low-level time-of-flight info captured by an off-the-shelf miniature distance sensor, we can detect deviations in a planar surface over a wide field-of-view.
Carter Sifferman, William Sun, Mohit Gupta, Michael Gleicher
RA-L, 2024 / To Appear: ICRA, 2025
project page / bibtex
By utilizing low-level time-of-flight info captured by an off-the-shelf miniature distance sensor, we can detect deviations in a planar surface over a wide field-of-view.
Other projects
Closed-loop Mobile Manipulator Control Using a Distance Sensor
William Sun, Michael Gleicher
Aug 2024
project page
We improve mobile manipulator control with exteroception from a time-of-flight distance sensor in a closed-loop system.
William Sun, Michael Gleicher
Aug 2024
project page
We improve mobile manipulator control with exteroception from a time-of-flight distance sensor in a closed-loop system.
Improving Image Generation for Rare Entities With LLM Augmentation
William Sun, Wenqing Wei, Nian Lu
Dec 2023
code / pdf
William Sun, Wenqing Wei, Nian Lu
Dec 2023
code / pdf