Akash Sharma
Ph.D student @ The Robotics Institute, CMU ⢠Be curious always đ

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 Bachelorâs degree in Electronics and Communication from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE).
Iâm 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.
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Apr 11, 2025 | Gave an invited talk titled âSelf-supervised perception for tactile dexterityâ at the Neuroagent Lab, CMU. |
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Apr 10, 2025 | Our paper âDexterityGen: Foundation controller for Unprecedented Dexterityâ was accepted at RSS 2025! |
Sep 04, 2024 | Our paper âSparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensingâ was accepted at CoRL 2024! |
Jul 14, 2023 | âNeural Radiance Fields with LiDAR Mapsâ accepted at ICCV 2023 |
Apr 27, 2023 | I will join as a Visiting Researcher at Meta (Facebook) FAIR from Fall â23. |