Graduate Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap for Athletic Loco-Manipulation 

      Fey, Nolan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Achieving athletic loco-manipulation on robots requires moving beyond traditional tracking rewards—which simply guide the robot along a reference trajectory—to task rewards that drive truly dynamic, goal-oriented behaviors. ...

    • A Wound Designates a Subject 

      Lum, Luca E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      What haunts when haunting itself has been foreclosed? This thesis develops “ghostlessness” as a conceptual and aesthetic framework across my work in moving image, drawing, and writing. Ghostlessness refers to conditions ...

    • Stylizing 3D Models With Generative AI for Fabrication 

      Tejedor, Leandra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)
      This thesis presents two novel approaches for modifying 3D models using generative AI for stylization while ensuring the resulting models preserve the properties required for fabrication. The first method, Style2Fab, ...