Asher Hancock
email:  ajhancock[AT]princeton[DOT]edu

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I am a graduate student at Princeton advised by Anirudha Majumdar.
Previously, I was a MPhil candidate in the Controls Group at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Rodolphe Sepulchre.
I am broadly interested in AI and robot control, safety, and interpretability.


  News
  • Attending RSS 2024 in Delft! (July 2024)
  • Started my PhD at Princeton! (September 2023)
  • Completed my MPhil in Engineering. My thesis may be found here (August 2023)
  • Started my MPhil in Engineering at the University of Cambridge! (Sep. 2022)
  • Graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh! (May 2022)
  • Awarded the NSF GRFP to fund my PhD! (April 2022)
  • Awarded the Churchill Scholarship to obtain my MPhil at the University of Cambridge! (Mar. 2022)
  Research




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Run-time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More Visually Robust
Asher J. Hancock, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar
Under Review, 2024 [arXiv] [Website]
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Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games
Justin Lidard, Haimin Hu, Asher J Hancock, Zixu Zhang, Albert Gimo Contreras, Vikash Modi, Jonathan A. DeCastro, Deepak Gopinath, Guy Rosman, Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Maria Santos, Jaime Fernandez Fisac
RSS, 2024 [ArXiv] [Website]
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PAC-Bayes Generalization Certificates for Learned Inductive Conformal Prediction
Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Asher J Hancock, Heng Yang, Marco Pavone, Anirudha Majumdar
NeurIPS, 2023 [ArXiv] [Code]
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On Relaxation Systems in Network and Systems Theory
Asher J. Hancock
Master's Thesis, 2023 PDF

  Honors and Awards
  • NSF GRFP (2022)
  • Churchill Scholarship (2022)
  • Goldwater Scholarship (2021)
  • Sigma Xi Membership (2021)
  • USRA Distinguished Undergraduate Award (2x Honorable Mention, 2020-21)

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