Morgan Byrd

I am a third year CS PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology under Sehoon Ha.

My interests are in robotics and reinforcement learning.

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Research

AdaptManip: Learning Adaptive Whole-Body Object Lifting and Delivery with Online Recurrent State Estimation
Morgan Byrd, Donghoon Baek, Kartik Garg, Hyunyoung Jung, Daesol Cho, Maks Sorokin, Robert Wright, Sehoon Ha
Under Review
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Unsupervised Skill Discovery as Exploration for Learning Agile Locomotion
Seungeun Rho*, Kartik Garg*, Morgan Byrd, Sehoon Ha
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025)
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PrivilegedDreamer: Explicit Imagination of Privileged Information for Rapid Adaptation of Learned Policies
Morgan Byrd, Jackson Crandell, Mili Das, Jessica Inman, Robert Wright, Sehoon Ha
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025) (38.67% acceptance rate)
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Understanding Expectations for a Robotic Guide Dog for Visually Impaired People
J. T. Kim, Morgan Byrd, Jack L. Crandell, Bruce N. Walker, Greg Turk, Sehoon Ha
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025) (25.0% acceptance rate)
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Work Experience

RAI Robotics and AI Institute: Research Intern January 2026 - May 2026
Georgia Tech Georgia Institute of Technology: Research Assistant May 2022 - Present
Dynetics Dynetics: Mechanical Engineer 3 April 2020 - April 2021
Parsons Parsons Corporation: Associate Aerospace Engineer June 2018 - April 2020

Education

Georgia Tech Ph.D in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology 2028 (expected)
Georgia Tech M.S. in Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology 2023
Vanderbilt B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University 2018