Dylan Goetting

whitewater kayaking

Hi I'm Dylan!

I'm a masters student in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, at UC Berkeley, advised by Jitendra Malik. I'm graduating Spring 2025, and currently looking for full-time roles in robotics, agents and computer vision.

I graduated from the M.E.T program at UC Berkeley in 2024, recieving a B.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.S in Business Administration. I'm an avid whitetater kayaker and freeride skier for the Cal Ski Team.

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Research

My research interests include bridging the gap between robotic policies and the rich space of language agents.

End-to-End Navigation with VLMs: Transforming Spatial Reasoning into Question-Answering
Dylan Goetting, Himanshu Gaurav Singh, Antonio Loquercio
arXiv, 2024
project page / arXiv / video / code

VLMnav: an embodied framework to transform a Vision and Language Model (VLM) into an end-to-end navigation policy.

SSEAL: Self-Supervised Explorative Agent Learning
Evan Frick, Dylan Goetting, Dhruv Gautam
Under review at ICML, 2025
1st place winner at Berkeley RDI's LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon (3000+ participants)
paper / code / demo

A novel framework for agents to autonomously explore their environment and synthesize learnings for downstream performance.

VLA as Tools: Exploring the Space of Agentic Robot Generalists
Dylan Goetting
2024
paper

A proposed system in which central planning agent, powered by a Large Language Model (LLM), interacts with the environment by iteratively prompting a VLA model. Through a carefully designed feedback module, the LLM can observe the outcome of such robotic trajectory, and use this information for downstream tasks.

Adventures

I like to explore the world and document my adventures. Some videos are highlights from my YouTube channel.

Goetting Productions YouTube Channel

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