Machine Learning

Machine learning is rapidly becoming one of the more powerful tools for helping robots to understand environments and control their behavior under complex situations.

Faculty

Pratik Chaudhari

Associate Professor, ESE

Avik De

PhD, ESE '17- Adjunct Associate Professor, ESE; Chief Science Officer, Ghost Robotics

Eric Eaton

Research Associate Professor, CIS

Nadia Figueroa

Shalini and Rajeev Misra Presidential Assistant Professor, MEAM

Yash Jain

PhD, CIS

Dinesh Jayaraman

Associate Professor, CIS

Antonio Loquercio

Assistant Professor, ESE

Jiayuan Mao

Assistant Professor, CIS (Incoming Fall 2026)

Nikolai Matni

Associate Professor, ESE

George Pappas

Joseph Moore Professor & Department Chair, ESE

Kausik Sivakumar

Robotics MSE '23 - Applied Scientist, RAI Institute

René Vidal

Rachleff University Professor - Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine; ESE, Penn Engineering

Thomas Zhang

PhD, ESE '26 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University

Inside the Lab

Fast Feature Field (F³): A Predictive Representation of Events

Fast Feature Field (F³): A Predictive Representation of Events

Richeek Das

PhD, CIS

Kostas Daniilidis

Ruth Yalom Stone Professor, CIS

Pratik Chaudhari

Associate Professor, ESE

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25 - Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS '26 - Software Engineer, Zoox

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Pratik Chaudhari

Associate Professor, ESE

AAWR: Real World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

AAWR: Real World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

Jie Wang

Robotics MSE '26 - Member, Venture Lab

Oleh Rybkin

PhD, CIS '23 - Research Scientist, Cursor

Dinesh Jayaraman

Associate Professor, CIS

Edward Hu

PhD, CIS

Projects