Venkatesh Pattabiraman

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Hi! I’m a researcher at the General Purpose Robotics and AI Lab (GRAIL) at NYU’s CILVR Group, fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lerrel Pinto.

Currently in my second year pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics at NYU, my current focus is on themes such as Multimodal Representation Learning and Neuro-inspired Robot Locomotion.

I obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, where I explored research themes such as Dexterous Robot Hands, Mechanical Biomimicry and Soft Robotics, at the Mechatronics & Instrumentation Lab where I was supervised by Prof. I.A. Palani.

Other exploratory learning experiences of mine include working on Flexible Robotics at the Mechanics and Computation Lab at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore with Prof. Ramsharan Rangarajan, and on Intelligent Mobility at FEV and with Prof. Chen Feng on Visual SLAM (vSLAM) and 3D Reconstruction.

In my spare time, I enjoy music, tennis and reading.

selected publications

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    Learning Precise, Contact-Rich Manipulation through Uncalibrated Tactile Skins
    Venkatesh Pattabiraman*, Yifeng Cao, Siddhant Haldar, and 2 more authors
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - under review, 2024
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    AnySkin: Plug-and-play Skin Sensing for Robotic Touch
    Raunaq BhirangiVenkatesh Pattabiraman, Enes Erciyes, and 3 more authors
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - under review, 2024
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    Neural Circuit Architectural Priors for Quadruped Locomotion
    Nikhil BhattasaliVenkatesh PattabiramanLerrel Pinto, and 1 more author
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) - under review, 2024
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    Hierarchical State Space Models for Continuous Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling
    Raunaq Bhirangi, C Wang, Venkatesh Pattabiraman, and 4 more authors
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024