Akash Sharma

Ph.D student @ The Robotics Institute, CMU • Be curious always 🔭

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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!
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

selected publications

  1. CoRL
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    Sparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensing
    Carolina Higuera*Akash Sharma*, Chaithanya Krishna Bodduluri, Taosha Fan, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Michael KaessByron Boots, Mike Lambeta, Tingfan Wu, and Mustafa Mukadam
    In 8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2024
  2. Compositional and Scalable Object SLAM
    Akash SharmaWei Dong, and Michael Kaess
    In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA, May 2021