Tom Silver
Tom Silver earned his MIT doctorate in May 2024 with Leslie Kaelbling and Josh Tenenbaum. He then held a Cornell postdoctoral role with Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee during 2024–2025. Silver coauthored FEAST, a robot mealtime-assistance system designed for personalization. It uses parameterized behavior trees that a language model can adapt, with testing in homes and several interaction methods for care recipients. Silver shared the 2025 RSS Outstanding Paper Award as a FEAST coauthor. He leads Princeton’s Robot Planning and Learning Lab, which works on generalist robots.
- Now at
- Princeton University
- Works
- 51
- Citations
- 1,115
- h-index
- 14
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2024–2025
Doctorate and caregiving research
Tom Silver earned his MIT doctorate in May 2024 with Leslie Kaelbling and Josh Tenenbaum. He then held a Cornell postdoctoral role with Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee during 2024–2025.
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2025
FEAST collaboration
Silver coauthored FEAST, a robot mealtime-assistance system designed for personalization. It uses parameterized behavior trees that a language model can adapt, with testing in homes and several interaction methods for care recipients.
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2025 award
Shared research recognition
Silver shared the 2025 RSS Outstanding Paper Award as a FEAST coauthor. He leads Princeton’s Robot Planning and Learning Lab, which works on generalist robots.
Sources and credits
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