Michael Piseno

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University advised by Karen Liu. Previously, I graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics.

I work on robotics and machine learning. My research is supported by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

Publications

1. Tara Sadjadpour, Michael Piseno, Diana Poplacenel, Justin Yu, Abigail O'Niell, Rika Antovona, Jeannette Bohg. “Topological and Geometric Representations of Deformable Point Clouds”. 2025 (Under Review).
2. Michael Piseno, Zhongyu Li, Alejandro Escontrela, Pieter Abbeel, Koushil Sreenath, Xue Bin Peng, Atil Iscen. “Stylized Locomotion Control for Bipedal Humanoid Robots with Adversarial Motion Priors”. 2025 (Under Review) [ site ]
3. Takara E. Truong, Michael Piseno, Zhaoming Xie, and C. Karen Liu. “PDP: Physics-Based Character Animation via Diffusion Policy”. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024. [ paper / site ]

Miscellaneous