Pleased to announce that Xuechao Zhang has successfully defended his thesis and is poised to graduate this Decemeber! Xuechao is one of the hardest working students I had the pleasure of mentoring and working with. His thesis, “Small Levers for Large Policies: In-Context Adaptation for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation”, explores state-of-the-art methods to adapt policies without updating their weights. This includes the use of In-Context Learning with foundation models to update a FiLM layer. Xuechao is joining the industry as a Robotics Engineer at Apple.