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Vivek Mallampati

Vivek Mallampati

PhD Student in Robotics

Current Position: Oregon State University

Advisor: Dr. Julie Adams

Location: Corvallis, OR, USA

Email: mallampv@oregonstate.edu

Biography

Fall 2023, I started the Ph.D. in Robotics program at Oregon State University under the guidance of Prof Julie Adams.

I was a graduate student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, pursuing an MS in Robotics. I currently do research in three spaces in STAR Lab with Prof Harish Ravichandar. First, I worked on a project that learns trait preferences from expert demonstrations for multi-agent team formation. Second, I worked on creating StarCraft II expert demonstrations for a project that learns Gaussian processes from sub-optimal demonstrations and tries to find the best possible coalition using a given set of robots. Third, worked on a project that focused on understanding the concept of the trainability of agents in a decentralized market-based coalition formation framework.

I graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science in May 2021. While there, I did research on developing robotic systems for a teleoperated nursing robot. I am interested in working on continuing my work with learning algorithms as well as in developing middleware for autonomous robotic systems.

Research Interests

  • Adaptive Human-Machine Teaming: Developing systems that understand and adapt to human teammates
  • Multi-Robot Task Allocation: Learning from demonstrations and optimizing team formation
  • Learning Algorithms: Preference learning, Gaussian processes, and reinforcement learning
  • Robotic Systems: Middleware development for autonomous robotic systems

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