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Asher Hancock email:  ajhancock[AT]princeton[DOT]edu Google Scholar | Github I am a graduate student at Princeton advised by Anirudha Majumdar. Previously, I was a MPhil candidate in the Controls Group at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Rodolphe Sepulchre. I am broadly interested in AI and robotic foundation models. Home Research Honors CV   News Attending ICRA 2025 in Atlanta! (May 2025) Passed my Generals Exam! (January 2025) Attending RSS 2024 in Delft! (July 2024) Started my PhD at Princeton! (September 2023) Completed my MPhil in Engineering. My thesis may be found here (August 2023) Started my MPhil in Engineering at the University of Cambridge! (Sep. 2022) Graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh! (May 2022) Awarded the NSF GRFP to fund my PhD! (April 2022) Awarded the Churchill Scholarship to obtain my MPhil at the University of Cambridge! (Mar. 2022)   Research Actions as Language: Fine-Tuning VLMs into VLAs Without Catastrophic Forgetting Asher J. Hancock, Xindi Wu, Lihan Zha, Olga Russakovsky, Anirudha Majumdar Under Review [arXiv] [Website] Is Your Imitation Learning Policy Better than Mine? Policy Comparison with Near-Optimal Stopping David Snyder, Asher James Hancock, Apurva Badithela, Emma Dixon, Patrick Miller, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Anirudha Majumdar, Masha Itkina, Haruki Nishimura RSS, 2025 [arXiv] [Website] Run-time Observation Interventions Make Vision-Language-Action Models More Visually Robust Asher J. Hancock, Allen Z. Ren, Anirudha Majumdar ICRA, 2025 [arXiv] [Website] Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games Justin Lidard, Haimin Hu, Asher J Hancock, Zixu Zhang, Albert Gimo Contreras, Vikash Modi, Jonathan A. DeCastro, Deepak Gopinath, Guy Rosman, Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Maria Santos, Jaime Fernandez Fisac RSS, 2024 [ArXiv] [Website] PAC-Bayes Generalization Certificates for Learned Inductive Conformal Prediction Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Asher J Hancock, Heng Yang, Marco Pavone, Anirudha Majumdar NeurIPS, 2023 [ArXiv] [Code] On Relaxation Systems in Network and Systems Theory Asher J. Hancock Master's Thesis, 2023 PDF   Honors and Awards NSF GRFP (2022) Churchill Scholarship (2022) Goldwater Scholarship (2021) Sigma Xi Membership (2021) USRA Distinguished Undergraduate Award (2x Honorable Mention, 2020-21) Template modified from this, this, and this.