revanth krishna senthilkumaran

revanth senthilkumaran

M.S. Robotics @ Carnegie Mellon University

Cross-embodiment learning • Manipulation & perception • Interactive reasoning

about me

I'm a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing my M.S. in Robotics, working with Prof. Ding Zhao in the SAFE-AI Lab. My research focuses on enabling robots to better perceive, reason about, and manipulate their environments through learning-based approaches.

research interests

  • Reasoned Perception & Manipulation: Developing robots that can understand and interact with complex environments through integrated perception and reasoning
  • Learning from Demonstrations: Enabling robots to learn manipulation skills from human demonstrations and videos
  • Generalizable Policies: Creating robot policies that transfer across different embodiments and environments
  • Human-Robot Collaboration: Building robots that can effectively assist humans in everyday tasks

Background: B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Previously worked at AeroVironment Inc. as a Robotics Software Engineer and conducted research at Purdue's IDEAS Lab, SMART Lab, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Beyond Research: I play basketball, follow a lot of sports, play piano, and enjoy exploring new food spots.

latest updates

[DEC 2025] Started M.S. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University

[JUN 2024] MOCAS dataset paper accepted to IEEE-TAFFC 2024

[APR 2024] Presented ARTEMIS at Purdue Spring Undergraduate Research Expo and won 2nd place in College of Science Category

[JUN 2023] UPPLIED paper published in IEEE-IROS 2023

research projects

ARTEMIS Paper

ARTEMIS: AI-Driven Robotic Triage Labeling and Emergency Information System

Authors: Revanth K. Senthilkumaran, Mridu Prashanth, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Sathvika Kotha, Kshitij Tiwari, Aniket Bera

Status: Preprint 2024

UPPLIED Paper

UPPLIED: UAV Path Planning for Learning from Demonstration

Authors: Shyam Sundar Kannan*, Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh*, Revanth K. Senthilkumaran, Byung-Cheol Min

* Equal Contribution

Status: IEEE-IROS 2023

MOCAS Paper

MOCAS: A Multimodal Dataset for Objective Cognitive Workload Assessment on Simultaneous Tasks

Authors: Wonse Jo*, Ruiqi Wang*, Su Sun, Revanth K. Senthilkumaran, Daniel Foti, Byung-Cheol Min

* Equal Contribution

Status: IEEE-TAFFC 2024

SMARTmBOT Paper

SMARTmBOT: A ROS2-based Low-cost and Open-source Mobile Robot Platform

Authors: Wonse Jo, Jaeeun Kim, Ruiqi Wang, Jeremy Pan, Revanth K. Senthilkumaran, Byung-Cheol Min

Status: Preprint 2022

presentations & talks

Data Collection for Mobile Manipulators

Data Collection for Mobile Manipulators for Learning from Demonstration

Venue: University of Minnesota Summer URC 2023

VF-PLUME

VF-PLUME: Vertical Farming Plant Localizing UAV with Mass Estimation

Venue: Purdue Spring URC 2023

Dynamic Cognitive Workload Allocation

A Dynamic Cognitive Workload Allocation Method for Human Robot Interaction

Venue: Purdue Fall URC 2022

GUI for Measuring Cognitive Workload

A GUI for Measuring Cognitive Workload Stimulus in Human Robot Interaction

Venue: Purdue Spring URC 2022