Pratik Chaudhari
Assistant Professor, ESE
Department: Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), Computer and Information Sciences (CIS)
Pratik is interested in the areas of machine learning, robotics and computer vision. His ambition is to bring the dream of cybernetics closer to reality, towards Embodied Intelligence. The ability to perceive and control the environment is the hallmark of such intelligence and their interplay is the core of my research. In a nutshell, he would like to build embodied autonomous agents that are intelligent not just in the sense of a chess-playing program but also intelligent in the sense of a dog. This research is highly multi-disciplinary: it draws from optimization, statistical physics, partial differential equations and stochastic processes, as also, stochastic control, motion planning and formal verification methods. It involves both experimental and theoretical work; pushing the envelope of science and achieving broad societal impact requires both. It focuses on applications in home robotics, personal healthcare and autonomous driving.
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Publications
Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors
Publisher ICRA
TreeScope: An Agricultural Robotics Dataset for LiDAR-Based Mapping of Trees in Forests and Orchards
Publisher ICRA
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Scalable Reinforcement Learning Policies for Multi-Agent Control
Publisher arXiv
A Free-Energy Principle for Representation Learning
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
A Geometric Interpretation of Stochastic Gradient Descent Using Diffusion Metrics
Publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
BayesRace: Learning to Race Autonomously from prior experience
Publisher arXiv
DIRECTIONAL ADVERSARIAL TRAINING FOR COST SENSITIVE DEEP LEARNING CLASSIFICATION APPLICATIONS
Publisher arXiv
Rethinking the Hyperparameters of Fine-tuning
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
TraDE: Transformers for Density Estimation
Publisher arXiv
Proximal Deterministic Policy Gradient
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
A Baseline for Few-Shot Image Classification
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
P30: Policy-on Policy-off Policy Optimization
Publisher arXiv
News
Faculty News
Building Robots that Learn: Pratik Chaudhari Investigates the Underpinnings of AI
April 5, 2024
Faculty News
Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award 2022 Recognizes Research Efforts of Dr. Pratik Chaudhari
August 18, 2023
Faculty News
Pratik Chaudhari receives a 2019 Q4 of AWS Machine Learning Research Award
July 6, 2020
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Research Areas
- Computer Vision
- Perception
- Reinforcement Learning
- Autonomy
- Machine Learning
- Planning