Jacky Liang

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 516 citations indexed

About

Jacky Liang is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacky Liang has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 516 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jacky Liang's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (3 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (3 papers). Jacky Liang is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (3 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (3 papers). Jacky Liang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Jacky Liang's co-authors include Fei Xia, Karol Hausman, Pete Florence, Wenlong Huang, Peng Xu, Andy Zeng, Brian Ichter, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk and Dieter Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Hormones and Behavior and 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

In The Last Decade

Jacky Liang

11 papers receiving 496 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control
    2023 295 citations Jacky Liang, Wenlong Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacky Liang United States 7 258 192 174 98 92 12 516
Benjamin Burchfiel United States 9 244 0.9× 120 0.6× 150 0.9× 81 0.8× 56 0.6× 16 506
Jonathan Bohren United States 6 266 1.0× 132 0.7× 173 1.0× 98 1.0× 157 1.7× 8 524
Ulrich Klank Germany 11 264 1.0× 169 0.9× 288 1.7× 85 0.9× 71 0.8× 17 573
Aleksandar Jevtić Spain 13 119 0.5× 127 0.7× 155 0.9× 51 0.5× 80 0.9× 36 450
Daniel Kappler Germany 12 393 1.5× 168 0.9× 198 1.1× 189 1.9× 61 0.7× 20 555
Alexandros Paraschos Germany 12 506 2.0× 321 1.7× 162 0.9× 183 1.9× 75 0.8× 19 658
Robert Krug Sweden 10 238 0.9× 60 0.3× 115 0.7× 113 1.2× 81 0.9× 28 389
Juan Rojas China 11 176 0.7× 100 0.5× 114 0.7× 107 1.1× 58 0.6× 41 360
Harish Ravichandar United States 12 446 1.7× 253 1.3× 165 0.9× 138 1.4× 108 1.2× 34 721
Luis F. Marín-Urías Mexico 8 222 0.9× 105 0.5× 262 1.5× 46 0.5× 50 0.5× 24 528

Countries citing papers authored by Jacky Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacky Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jacky Liang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jacky Liang. The network helps show where Jacky Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacky Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jacky Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jacky Liang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jacky Liang. Jacky Liang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Xiao, Ted, Sumeet Singh, Quan Vuong, et al.. (2024). How to Prompt Your Robot: A PromptBook for Manipulation Skills with Code as Policies. 4340–4348. 8 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky, et al.. (2024). Sex-dependent effects of antimicrobials and lipopolysaccharide on blood-brain-barrier permeability in pubertal male and female CD1 mice. Hormones and Behavior. 165. 105615–105615. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky, Wenlong Huang, Fei Xia, et al.. (2023). Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control. 9493–9500. 295 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liang, Jacky, et al.. (2022). Search-Based Task Planning with Learned Skill Effect Models for Lifelong Robotic Manipulation. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 6351–6357. 12 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky & Oliver Kroemer. (2021). Contact Localization for Robot Arms in Motion without Torque Sensing. 2008. 6322–6328. 4 indexed citations
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Handa, Ankur, Karl Van Wyk, Jacky Liang, et al.. (2020). DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System. 9164–9170. 123 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, et al.. (2020). In-Hand Object Pose Tracking via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation. 6203–6209. 21 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky, et al.. (2020). Undergraduate-Led Survey Class to Improve CS Education for New Students. 142–148. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wuming, et al.. (2019). Homography-Based Deep Visual Servoing Methods for Planar Grasps. 6570–6577. 3 indexed citations
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Gealy, David V., Jacky Liang, Jeffrey Mahler, et al.. (2017). Design of parallel-jaw gripper tip surfaces for robust grasping. 2831–2838. 33 indexed citations
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Liang, Jacky, et al.. (1998). A recipe structure for plan execution in dynamic worlds. 105–112.

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