I am a Research Scientist at FAIR, Meta. The goal of my research is to enable robots with the ability to intelligently move (navigate) and do useful things (manipulate) in everyday environments (real world constraints).
These research goals manifest as challenges across the robotics stack ranging from perception to planning. To tackle them I often employ tools such as optimization and deep learning, and sensor modalities like vision and tactile. I also focus on developing 'structured' techniques that can leverage modern machine learning in a way that adds value over traditional robotics methods towards practical robot learning (data efficient, generalizable, interpretable).
Prior to joining FAIR, I received a Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Tech where I was advised by Byron Boots and was part of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. During my Ph.D. I interned at NVIDIA Research, Amazon Robotics, and Honda Research Institute.
Email: mukadam DOT mh AT gmail DOT com
News:
[2023/05] Tactile Diffusion wins Best Paper Award at ICRA 2023 Workshop on Effective Representations, Abstractions, and Priors for Robot Learning (RAP4Robots)
[2023/05] Two invited talks at ICRA 2023 workshops: Distributed Graph Algorithms for Robotics and 2nd Workshop on Compliant Robot Manipulation
[2023/03] Invited talk in the robotics seminar at University of Toronto.
[2022/07] Theseus: A library for differentiable nonlinear optimization (NeurIPS 2022) released; Meta AI Blog, Twitter.
[2022/04] iSDF for real-time neural signed distance fields released. Update: accepted to RSS 2022.
[2022/03] Invited talk in the Robotics Seminar at Cornell.
[2021/12] We open sourced Theseus: A library for differentiable nonlinear optimization (beta release).
[2021/12] Our work on learning energy-based models in optimization (LEO) featured in the CMU ML blog.
[2021/06] Habitat 2.0 released and press coverage by TechCrunch, CNET, 20minutes, VentureBeat, FBAI blog.
[2021/06] Our learning robot cinematography work presented at ICRA 2021 and press coverage by VentureBeat, CMU, FBAI twitter.
[2020/11] Invited talk in Robot Learning Seminar Series at Mila.
[2020/10] Invited talk in IROS 2020 workshop on Geometric Methods for Robot Learning.
[2020/03] Organizing RSS 2020 workshop on Good Citizens of Robotics Research.
[2020/03] Organizing RSS 2020 workshop on Structured Approaches to Robot Learning.
[2019/07] Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis.
[2019/06] Our paper on GP motion planning won the IJRR Paper of the Year award! Georgia Tech article here.
[2019/05] I will be joining Facebook AI Research (FAIR) as a Research Scientist this fall.
[2019/05] Patent on Autonomous Vehicle Policy Generation published.
[2019/01] Our work on RMPflow was featured on NVIDIA's Blog and GeekWire.