Geethika Hemkumar
MS Robotics Student at Carnegie Mellon University

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! |
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Mar 15, 2024 | Texas Robotics (including the RoboCup soccer team) was featured on the Austin American Statesman! |
selected publications
- Reinforcement learning within the classical robotics stack: A case study in robot soccerarXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09417, 2024
- " What’s That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped RobotsIn Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, 2023
- Look to my lead: How does a leash affect perceptions of a quadruped robot?In at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)., 2022