Oscar Youngquist

Oscar is a master’s student in the Manning College of Information and computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Oscar works in the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics under the guidance of Dr. Roderic Grupen. His research explores affordance driven, sample efficient learning techniques for robots inspired by models of developmental psychology.Prior to Umass, he received a B.S. in Computer and Computational Science from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2020.