Rohan Paul

Assistant Professor & Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellow,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Joint Faculty, School of Artificial Intelligence
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Email: rohan@cse.iitd.ac.in

My research is aimed towards capable service robots that interact seamlessly with humans. Please get in touch if you would like to pursue a PhD or year long B.Tech./Masters projects in areas of Robot Learning and AI that address problems of human-robot teaming, planning, language grounding and scene understanding.

News

Our paper on learning commonse sense knowledge for robotics appeared in IJCAI, 2021 Link.
Work for the past five years in high-level robot reasoning accepted at Journal for Field Robotics (JFR), 2021. Paper titled, "An Intelligence Architecture for Grounded Language Communication with Field Robots".
Our paper on neuro-symbolic learning of robot manipulation programs appeared in RSS Workshop, 2021 Link.
Co-organizing NeurIPS workshop 2021 workshop. Link.
Honored to present a talk at the CMU Robotics Institute (CMU-RI) Seminar. Link.
Delighted to participate in the University of Rochester Seminar Series. Thanks to Thomas Howard and Jacob Arkin at the Robotics and AI Lab!
Honored to be speaking at the KAIST, Korea on Bridging the Gap between Humans and Robots. Thanks to Daehyung Park and his lab members. Link.
Overview of COL864-2021 course for Planning and Estimation for Autonomous Systems. Link.
Participated on the Early Career Panel (Inclusion@CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2020
Serving on the Program Committee for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.
Serving on the Program Committee for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
Joint work with Rajas Bansal, Shreshth Tuli and Mausam on Learning Common sense Tool use for Robot Planning appeared in the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Imitation Learning, July, 2020. Video. Paper.
Arxiv pre-print available for ToolNet: Using Commonsense Generalization for Predicting Tool Use for Robot Plan Synthesis. Joint work with Rajas Bansal, Shreshth Tuli and Mausam. Link.
Honored to be part of the core team for the DST's Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) for Cobotics at IIT Delhi, 2020.
Contributed towards organizing the International Workshop on Human-Robot Teaming organized by Joint Advanced Technology Center (JATC) at IIT Delhi, March 2020.
Contributed to Vigyan Prasar's India Science Episode on AI, 2020. Video.
Grateful to be a recipient of the Pankaj Gupta Faculty Fellowship, 2020.
Journal paper on Multi-Modal Estimation and Communication of Latent Semantic Knowledge for Robust Execution of Robot Instructions accepted in the International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR) 2019.
Two papers on on learning constraints and learning representations for actions with Daehyung Park and Mike Noseworthy appeared at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2019.
Started as an Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi.
Smartcane receives recognition at The Gates Foundation event in Seattle.
Paper on grounding robot plans from language instructions with incomplete world knowledge accepted for CoRL 2018.Video.
Work on using language and physical interaction to infer latent object states accepted for ISER 2018. Video.
Co-organizing NIPS ’17 workshop titled Acting and Interacting in the Real World: Challenges in Robot Learning
Served as Program Committee member for RSS ’17, CoRL ’17 and AAAI Fall Symposium ’17.
Presented work on Language Grounding with Learned Visual-Linguistic Context and Grounding Abstract Spatial Concepts that IJCAI 2017. Media coverage for ComText in MIT News, Engadget and The Hindu.
Honored to learn that the SmartCane will be exhibited at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York from Dec 15, 2017 till October 2018. The device is also being curated at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Work on Grounding Unknown Concepts accepted for ISRR ’17. Follow up work on using Visual attributes for disambiguation accepted at AAAI Fall Symposium ’17.