Vishal Reddy Mandadi
I am an MS Robotics student (thesis) at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Deepak Pathak on robot learning and physics engines.
Before CMU, I was a research assistant at IIIT-Hyderabad, spending a few years thinking carefully about how robots move through uncertain environments. That work spanned motion planning with diffusion models, robotic manipulation, and tabletop perception, advised by Prof. K. Madhava Krishna, Prof. Arun Kumar Singh, Prof. Makarand Tapaswi, and Dr. Vladimir Petrik. It led to papers at ICRA 2024 and CASE 2023, and a 3rd-place finish at the ICRA Open Cloud Robot Table Organization Challenge in 2022. I completed my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT-H.
The question I keep coming back to: what is it going to take before robots are capable enough to go do science for us?
Outside work, I run, train in tennis, and play squash and table tennis. Football was once part of the rotation too, until geography intervened.