People

Faculty

Dr. Ravi Prakash Principal Investigator

Varuni Buereddy Safety Critical Control, Formal Methods for Imitation Learning

Mritunjoy Halder Mobile Manipulation, Field and Space Robotics

Sasidhar Reddy Alavala Geometric World Models for Multimodal Robot Interaction

Soumyajit Kushari Control Systems, Imitation Learning

Basu Hela Foundation Models for Robotics

Akhil R Kurup MTech(R) (CPS) Safe and Efficient Abstraction Learning for Robotic Planning

Mumuksh Tayal MTech(R) (CPS) Safe and Robust Deep Learning for Robotics

Swapnil Joshi MTech (AI) Diffusion-Based Task and Motion Planning

Aryan Kumar Singh MTech (AI) Predictive Preference Learning for Autonomous Driving

Nithish M MTech (EE) Riemannian Manifold Robot Learning and Generalization

Shanmukha Rao Jammalamadugu MTech (EE) Learning from Demonstration with Imperfect Teachers

Aryan Dahiya MTech (ME) Learning-Based Navigation

Manthan Goyal Research Associate Interactive Robot Learning for Manipulation and HRI

Ahan Panda Research Associate Robust Imitation Learning from Imperfect Data

Rushikesh Jadhav Research Associate Predictive Preference Learning for Navigation

Ishita Chaudhary Research Associate Generalizing Robot Skills across Embodiments and Objects

Franka Research 3 (×5)

AgileX NERO (×4)

AgileX PiPER-X (×1)

AgileX COBOT S (×1)

Jackal UGV (×1)

Ashrith Sagar Yedlapalli (2024–26), MTech (RAS): Task-Parameterized Interactive Imitation Learning (Now: PhD student, Dept. of Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc)
Shubham Puri Goswami (2024–26), MTech (RAS): Geometric Motion Planning with Signed Distance Fields and the Medial Axis · paper: The Topological Cage (ICRAW'26)
Siddharth Jain (2024–26), MTech (RAS): Reinforcement Learning for Safe and Robust Control (Now: Honeywell, Bengaluru)
Jwalakar Vishnu Dutt (2023–25), MTech (CPS): Visual Imitation Learning for Long-horizon Tasks (Now: Netradyne, Bengaluru)
Md. Farhad Hussain (2023–25), MTech (CPS): Language-Conditioned Affordance-Based Grasp Pose Learning from 3D Point Clouds (Now: John Deere, Pune)
Sahil Kishor Bobade (2023–25), MTech (CPS): Zero-Shot Robotic Task Generalization Using Vision-Language Models and Keypoint Constraints (Now: ExxonMobil)