Josh Tran

I'm Josh, a MS student at the University of Washington. I am currently researching RL and IL for robotic manipulation at the WEIRD Lab under Prof. Abhishek Gupta. During undergrad, I enjoyed two years working on state estimation for Flying Insect Robots (FIRs) at the AIR Lab under Prof. Sawyer Fuller.

I have also had the good fortune of working as software engineering intern first at Github in 2024, and then at Amazon Robotics in 2025. I am graduating in Spring 2027, and am open to roles in ML and robotics.

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Research

I'm interested in reinforcement learning and continual learning.

TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-scale Robots
Zhitao Yu*, Josh Tran*, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller
ICRA, 2025,
Best Student Paper Award
project page / arXiv

Created the smallest viable avionics suite and first light and efficient enough for Flying Insect Robots (FIRs).

In the News

	Allen School undergraduates make big contributions to autonomous flying robots with TinySense Allen School News Kristine White, July 30, 2025
	A new sensor system for insect-sized robots UW Mechanical Engineering News July 14, 2025

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