Yaashia Gautam
PhD student. Robotics Enthusiast. Contact Friendly Robots.
Hi, I’m Yaashia Gautam! I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I am advised by Professor Marco Nicotra. My research is centered around robotic controls and manipulation. I am developing algorithms to make robots contact friendly, and leverage methods in control theory to do so. I am particularly interested in leveraging the intersection of AI/ML and control theory to develop better methods for human-robot interaction keeping safety considerations in mind.
Before coming to CU Boulder, I completed my Master’s in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, where I was a Graduate Researcher under Professor Quan Nguyen on using Model Predictive Control for the control of collaborative quadruped robots.
news
| Jan 01, 2025 | My internship project on with the Autonomous Vehicle Group in NVIDIA has be filed as a patent in US and China! |
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| Jul 12, 2024 | I presented my work on Hypersampled Model Predictive Control at the American Control Conference, Toronto in the form of a Rapid-Interactive session! |
| May 13, 2024 | I am happy to announce that I am beginning my internship with NVIDIA Autonomous Vehicle Group as a Controls Software Engineer Intern under my manager Yue Sun and mentor Mohammed Nasir! Excited to begin this adventure and explore control algorithms augmented with learning methods. |
| Jul 01, 2023 | I presented in my first conference! My work on Influence of Discretization in Dynamically Embedded Model Predictive Control was presented at the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress in Yokohoma, Japan. |
| May 15, 2023 | The preprint on my first project as a PhD student has been added to arxiv! It explored how to increase the size of Output Admissible Sets, integral to the working of Model Predictive Control (MPC) |