Akash Sharma
Ph.D student @ The Robotics Institute, CMU • Be curious always 🔭
1613 Newell-Simon Hall
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Hey there!
I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) advised by Prof. Michael Kaess and a visiting researcher at FAIR, Meta, where I collaborate with Mustafa Mukadam. My research focuses broadly on enabling robot perception and state estimation across different sensing modalities such as vision and touch.
I graduated with a Masters in Robotics from CMU (Thesis). Before joining CMU, I was briefly a Software Engineer at Infinera. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE).
I’m a enthusiast, my lua configuration is available here. I also enjoy mechanical keyboards, and I currently use a custom built keyboard Sofle Keyboard. Tarasha Khurana my partner and my constant source of support currently also pursues a Ph.D. in robotics.
news
Sep 04, 2024 | Our paper “Sparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensing” was accepted at CoRL 2024! |
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Jul 14, 2023 | “Neural Radiance Fields with LiDAR Maps” accepted at ICCV 2023 |
Apr 27, 2023 | I will join as a Visiting Researcher at Meta (Facebook) FAIR from Fall ‘23. |
Nov 09, 2022 | I gave a guest lecture on Dense representations for SLAM for 16833 - Robot Localization and Mapping @ CMU |
Dec 13, 2021 | Checkout this collection of awesome object SLAM papers and resources: https://github.com/520xyxyzq/awesome-object-SLAM |