CV
Education
- PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Expected 2025)
- SM, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022
- B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2020
Work experience
- Fall 2020-Present: Graduate Research Assistant
- DINaMo Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Duties included: Working on multi-agent reinforcement learning for scaling autonomous navigation to large systems; multi-objective reinforcement learning for mixed competitive-cooperative settings.
- Devised reinforcement learning methods (including hybrid approach of integer programming and reinfocement learning) for combinatorial problems like crew-scheduling, etc.
- Advisor: Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan
- Summer 2019: Research Intern
- TCS Research and Innovation Lab, Mumbai, India
- Duties included: Work on using reinforcement learning for the online version of the 3D bin-packing problem
- Advisor: Dr. Harshad Khadilkar
- Fall 2018-2019: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- RISE Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Duties included: Work on using reinforcement learning to improve object detection of pre-trained networks
- Advisor: Prof. Balaraman Ravindran
- Summer 2018: Research Intern
- Daimler AG R&D, Sindelfingen, Germany
- Duties included: Identify the optimal camera parameters for capturing images such that object detection performance is maximised.
- Advisor: Dr. Hannes Gorniaczyk
Skills
- Reinforcement Learning
- Graph Learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- C, C++
- ROS (Robot Operating Software)
Relevant Coursework
- Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
- Computational Sensorimotor Learning
- Intelligent Robotic Manipulation
- Underactuated Robotics
- Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making
- Reinforcement Learning
- Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Publications
For a detailed CV/resume please email me at sidnayak at mit dot edu