Jeremy Acheampong

I'm a master's student in Robotics at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the Mapping and Motion Lab and advised by Bernadette Bucher, where I'm currently exploring vision-language models (VLMs) for semantic grasping.

Before the University of Michigan, I earned a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics from Capital University and conducted research as an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate intern, where I developed data augmentation pipelines and built tools for evaluating and optimizing AI classifiers trained on small-scale and synthetic datasets. I also worked as a Research and Development Intern at the U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center, where I trained YOLO-based models for infrared human and object detection. Outside the lab, I serve as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard as a Cyber Warfare Officer.

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My research interests lie at the intersection of foundation models, spatial understanding, and semantic navigation, with the goal of enabling autonomous mobile robots to understand and act in complex indoor and outdoor environments.