Geethika Hemkumar

MS Robotics Student at Carnegie Mellon University

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Hello! I am a MS Robotics student at Carnegie Mellon University. I previously graduated with a BS and MS in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. I also worked full-time at Goldman Sachs for a year.

Previously, I worked with Dr. Justin Hart on research within social navigation and human-robot interaction. I also worked with Dr. Peter Stone as part of the UT Austin Villa/WisTex United RoboCup Standard Platform League teams.

I am broadly interested in robot perception, especially multimodal perception, and robot learning. My long-term goal/vision is to enable robots to be able to robustly perceive and act in dynamic, real-world environments.

In my free time, I enjoy playing the piano and learning the guitar, watching sports such as soccer and football, cooking/baking, and doing puzzles.

I am always receptive to learning from anyone about anything!

news

May 11, 2024 I graduated from UT Austin with a BS/MS in Computer Science!
Mar 15, 2024 Texas Robotics (including the RoboCup soccer team) was featured on the Austin American Statesman!

selected publications

  1. Reinforcement learning within the classical robotics stack: A case study in robot soccer
    Adam Labiosa, Zhihan Wang, Siddhant Agarwal, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09417, 2024
  2. " What’s That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped Robots
    Elliott Hauser, Yao-Cheng Chan, Parth Chonkar, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, 2023
  3. Look to my lead: How does a leash affect perceptions of a quadruped robot?
    Parth Chonkar, Geethika Hemkumar, Huihai Wang, and 9 more authors
    In at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)., 2022