Kevin Black Email | Google Scholar | GitHub | Twitter
Kevin Black Email | Google Scholar | GitHub | Twitter
Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm currently a PhD student at Berkeley AI advised by Professor Sergey Levine. I am graciously supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously, I graduated from UT Austin where I worked with Professor Scott Niekum. Before that, I worked on the Seeker mission as part of the Texas Spacecraft Laboratory. I was a member of the Turing Scholars and Dean's Scholars honors programs.
Previously, I graduated from UT Austin where I worked with Professor Scott Niekum. Before that, I worked on the Seeker mission as part of the Texas Spacecraft Laboratory. I was a member of the Turing Scholars and Dean's Scholars honors programs.
Publications
Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pretrained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
K. Black, M. Nakamoto, P. Atreya, H. Walke, C. Finn, A. Kumar, S. Levine
Preprint (under review).
BridgeData V2: A Dataset for Robot Learning at Scale
H. Walke, K. Black, A. Lee, M. J. Kim, M. Du, C. Zheng, T. Zhao, P. Hansen-Estruch, Q. Vuong, A. He, V. Myers, K. Fang, C. Finn, S. Levine
7th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2023.
ViNT: A Foundation Model for Visual Navigation
D. Shah, A. Sridhar, N. Dashora, K. Stachowicz, K. Black, N. Hirose, S. Levine
7th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2023.
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
K. Black, M. Janner, Y. Du, I. Kostrikov, and S. Levine
Preprint (under review).
Flight-Ready, Non-Cooperative Spacecraft Pose Estimation Using Monocular Imagery
K. Black, S. Shankar, D. Fonseka, J. Deutsch, A. Dhir, and M. R. Akella
31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2021.
A Pipeline for Vision-Based On-Orbit Proximity Operations Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Imagery
C. Schubert, K. Black, D. Fonseka, A. Dhir, J. Deutsch, N. Dhamani, G. Martin, and M. R. Akella
2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2021.
Projects
Starfish
Starfish
Generates synthetic training data for deep learning computer vision tasks using Blender
OPAT
OPAT
A simple web-based Object Pose Annotation Tool for manually annotating images with 6D pose information
FPGA Flight Controller
FPGA Flight Controller
A working quadcopter flight controller written in SystemVerilog and deployed to an FPGA
Vortex
Vortex
An automated 911 call handler intended for disaster relief scenarios that uses natural language processing to cluster calls by incident (HackMIT 2019)
Syntype
Syntype
A smart typing trainer for programmers that learns from the user in real time and targets more difficult patterns (HackDFW 2019)
Hovercraft
Hovercraft
A nationals-winning device built for the Science Olympiad high school competition
Wireless Encrypted Voice Communication
Wireless Encrypted Voice Communication
A 32-bit microcontroller applet from my summer 2017 internship at Silicon Labs (high school)
