Akash Sharma
Ph.D @ 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 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). My research focuses on long term robotic mapping and 3D reconstruction for scene understanding through graph-based SLAM. At CMU, I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Michael Kaess and collaborate with Shubham Tulsiani.
I graduated with a Masters in Robotics from CMU (Thesis). Before joining CMU, I spent two years as a Software Engineer at Infinera, where I helped build infrastructure for fault-tolerant optical communications, that manages long-haul internet traffic. I received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering 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.
news
Jul 14, 2023 | Co-authored paper “Neural Radiance Fields with LiDAR Maps” accepted at ICCV 2023 |
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Apr 27, 2023 | I will join as a Visiting Researcher at Meta (Facebook) FAIR from Fall ‘23. |
Nov 9, 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 |
Dec 13, 2021 | I will be interning this summer of ‘22 @ Meta (Facebook) Reality Labs. |
Dec 13, 2021 | Tarasha and I won two DSLRs (Nikon D3500) for our Computational Photography Course Project Presentation. (Course Page) |
Nov 1, 2021 | Reviewing for ICRA 2022 |
Aug 1, 2021 | Starting Ph.D. in Robotics at CMU |
May 13, 2021 | Interning @ Fyusion over the summer of 2021! |
May 1, 2021 | Graduated MS in Robotics (thesis) |
Feb 1, 2021 | “Compositional and Scalable Object SLAM” accepted at ICRA 2021 |
Dec 1, 2020 | Reviewing for ICRA 2021 |