Hi there, and welcome to my personal website! My name’s Nishanth and I’m a researcher and engineer focused on AI, ML and robotics. I also moonlight as a writer.
Presently, I’m a Ph.D. student in the LIS Group within MIT CSAIL. I’m officially advised by Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez and work within the greater Embodied Intelligence community of research at CSAIL. I’m extremely grateful for support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. You can read more about my research here.
Outside of research, I like to lift heavy things, read, play basketball, philosophize, cook, and sometimes make progress on various sci-fi novels/short-stories that I’ve been writing for longer than I care to admit.
If you’re interested in learning more about me or reading some of my writing, check out my resume, blog, fiction writing, or social links in the website footer. If you’d like to get in contact, check out this page here.
Recent News
- Two new papers on LLMs+TAMP and Language-Guided Abstraction Learning accepted at CoRL 2024! Excited to present them in Munich this November; reach out if you’ll be around and interested in chatting!
- I’m helping organize the 2nd ever LEAP Workshop at CoRL 2024! We plan to have an exciting program at the intersection of planning + learning, so do attend and/or submit!
- I’ll be at RSS 2024 presenting our work on planning to practice for mobile manipulation, and also presenting new work on LLM’s + TAMP in the lifelong learning workshop! Very much looking forward to meeting new people; reach out if you’re interested in chatting!
- I’m spending Summer 2024 at NVIDIA’s Seattle Robotics Research Lab! Reach out if you’re in the area and want to chat about anything robotics/AI!
- New paper from my internship at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute is out! Check it out here. [Update] This work has been accepted at RSS 2024!
- Released a new blog post on the lab website that provides an intro to bilevel planning; check it out here!