Group
Students
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Ram Ramrakhya, PhD student (2023 — Present); Co-advised with Zsolt Kira
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Karmesh Yadav, PhD student (2023 — Present); Co-advised with Zsolt Kira
Alumni
Former Research Scientists, Postdocs
- Stefan Lee, Postdoc 2016-17, Research Scientist 2017-19. Next position: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Outstanding Research Scientist Award, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
DARPA Riser
- Peter Anderson, Research Scientist 2018-19. Next position: Research Scientist in Language and Vision at Google.
- Zhile Ren, Postdoc 2018-19. Next position: Applied Research Scientist, Apple.
Former PhD Students
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Andrew Szot, PhD 2025. Next position: Apple.
PhD Thesis: From Multimodal LLMs to Generalist Embodied Agents.
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Naoki Yokoyama, PhD 2025. Next position: Apple.
ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship
PhD Thesis: From Web to World: Harnessing Foundation Models for Intelligent Robotic Assistants in Real-World Environments
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Arjun Majumdar, PhD 2024. Next position: Meta FAIR.
PhD Thesis: Large-Scale Offline Pre-Training Bootstraps Embodied Intelligence.
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Joanne Truong, PhD 2024. Next position: Meta FAIR.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Google Women Techmakers Scholarship
Adobe Research Fellowship
Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship
PhD Thesis: Sim2Robot: Training Robots for the Real-World with Imperfect Simulators.
Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2025
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Harsh Agrawal, PhD 2023. Next position: Apple.
Snap Inc. Research Fellowship
PhD Thesis: Towards multi-modal AI systems with open-world cognition.
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Nirbhay Modhe, PhD 2022.
PhD Thesis: Leveraging Value-awareness for Online and Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning.
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Erik Wijmans, PhD 2022. Co-advised with Irfan Essa. Next position: Apple.
ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship
PhD Thesis: Emergence of Intelligent Navigation Behavior in Embodied Agents from Massive-Scale Simulation.
Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2023
Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2023
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Ashwin Kalyan, PhD 2020. Next position: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).
JP Morgan PhD Fellowship
PhD Thesis: Improved search techniques for structured prediction.
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Abhishek Das, PhD 2020. Next position: Facebook AI Research.
Facebook Fellowship
Adobe Research Fellowship
Snap Inc. Research Fellowship
Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2021
Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2021
AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2020
PhD Thesis: Building agents that can see, talk, and act.
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Michael Cogswell, PhD 2020. Next position: SRI.
Bradley Fellowship
PhD Thesis: Disentangling neural network representations for improved generalization.
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Yash Goyal, PhD 2020. Next position: Samsung AI Lab, Montreal.
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Aishwarya Agrawal, PhD 2019. Next position: Google DeepMind / University of Montreal (MILA).
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2020
Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD Dissertation Award, 2020
AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2019
PhD Thesis: Visual Question Answering and Beyond.
- Qing Sun, PhD 2017. Next position: Facebook AI.
PhD Thesis: Greedy Inference Algorithms for Structured and Neural Models.
- Gordon Christie, PhD 2016. Co-Advised with Kevin Kochersberger. Next position: Army Research Lab
PhD Thesis: Collaborative Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicle Perception for Scene Understanding, Planning and GPS-denied Localization.
Former MS students, undergraduate advisees, and interns
- Mukul Khanna, MS 2024 (next position: Apple)
- Gunjan Chhablani, MS 2024 (next position: Waymo)
- Harish Kamath, BS 2021 (next position: Scale.AI)
- Rishabh Jain, MS 2021 (next position: eBay)
The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship Award 2021
- Joel Ye, MS 2021 (next position: PhD student at CMU)
Donald V. Jackson Fellowship award for academic excellence and leadership, 2021
- Sameer Dharur, MS 2021 (next position: Apple)
- Deshraj Yadav, MS 2018 (next position: Tesla Autopilot)
Snap Inc. Research Scholarship, 2017
- Akrit Mohapatra, MS 2017 (next position: eBay)
- Aroma Mahendru, MS 2017 (next position: Bloomberg)
- Latha Pemula, MS 2016 (next position: Amazon)
- Harsh Agrawal, MS 2016 (next position: Snapchat Research)
- Prakriti Banik, MS 2015 (next position: Bloomberg)
- Neelima Chavali, MS 2015 (next position: Many Trees Inc)
- Clint Solomon, MS 2015 (next position: PhotoKharma)
- Yash Kant, Intern (next position: PhD student at University of Toronto)
- Rishabh Jain, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
- Sanyam Agrawal, Intern (next position: Google)
- Deshraj Yadav, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
- Tejas Khot, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
- Viraj Prabhu, Intern (next position: MS student at GT)
- Ahmed Osman, Intern (next position: MS student at UCL)
- Khushi Gupta, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
- Ashwin Kalyan, Intern (next position: PhD student at GT)
- Abhishek Das, Intern (next position: PhD student at GT)
- Avi Singh, Intern (next position: PhD student at UC Berkeley)
- Faruk Ahmed, Intern (next position: PhD student at UMontreal)
- Senthil Purushwalkam, Intern (MS student at RI, CMU)
- Aroma Mahendru, Intern (next position: MS student at VT)
- Ratnesh Kumar, Intern (next position: MERL)
- Qi Lou, Intern (next position: PhD student at UC Irvine)
- Ankit Laddha, Intern (next position: MS student at RI, CMU)
- Adarsh Prasad, Intern (next position: PhD student at UT-Austin)
- Harsh Agrawal, Intern (next position: MS student at VT)
- Abhimanyu Dubey, Intern (next position: PhD student at MIT)
Former Student Collaborators