Hi! I am Utkarsh Mishra. I started my 4th year of PhD in Robotics at Georgia Tech with Dr. Yongxin Chen and Dr. Danfei Xu. My research lies at the intersection of generative methods, physical reasoning, and long-horizon planning for robotics. I focus on compositional diffusion-based approaches that generate long-horizon plans directly at inference from short-horizon data [GSC, GFC]. Recently, I've integrated search with compositional diffusion to scale inference, ensuring coherent long-horizon plans while maintaining short-horizon feasibility[CDGS]. My work has applications in robotic planning, panorama generation, and video diffusion models, and I'm particularly interested in exploring controllable video generation informed by physical reasoning and long-horizon planning.
I have completed internships with Large Behavior Model (LBM) team at TRI and Sony R&D US Labs. Before joining GaTech, I have worked with Prof. Matthew E. Taylor at the Inverse Reinforcement Learning lab, University of Alberta and Prof. Shishir Kolathaya at the Stochastic Robotics lab, Indian Institute of Science. Previously, I have collaborated with Prof. Auke Ijspeert and Dr. Dimitar Stanev at the Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL. I have also worked on Cable Driven Robots with Dr. Stéphane Caro at CNRS-LS2N France.
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PhD, Robotics Georgia Tech 2022 - Present |
ML/Robotics Research Intern Toyota Research Institute Summer 2024 |
AI/ML Research Intern Sony R&D US Labs Summer 2023 |
BTech, ME IIT Roorkee 2017 - 2021 |