Sudarshan Harithas

I’m a third-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, advised by Prof. Srinath Sridhar. Previously, I graduated from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) with an MS in Computer Science, where I worked with Prof. K Madhava Krishna.

Broadly, I am interested in developing general purpose robots that can actively interact with the world and perform a diverse range of tasks. Towards this goal I intend to develop cross-embodied policies that enable autonomous robots to acquire complex behaviors by jointly learning from their own experiences as well as transfer skills from multiple other embodiments.

🔬 Research Focus

1. 🧠 Embodiment-Agnostic Representations
   Develop representations that minimize the embodiment gap, enabling seamless transfer of manipulation and loco-manipulation skills from humans to robots such as humanoids and multi-fingered dexterous hands.

2. 🤖 Cross-Embodied Action Generation
   Design architectures and learning algorithms for cross-embodiment action generation, allowing skills to generalize across diverse robot morphologies.

3. 📊 Multi-Embodiment Data Infrastructure
   Build scalable data-capture infrastructure for multi-embodiment action datasets.