Biography

Jieliang (Rodger) Luo is a Principal AI Research Scientist at the Autodesk AI Lab in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, where he explored the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and creativity. His current research focus is understanding how to learn complex behaviors and apply insights for construction automation, architecture design, and world-building. His work has been presented at SIGGRAPH, ICCV, ICRA, CoRL, IROS, ECCV, ICLR, and others. Besides research, he’s super passionate about climbing.