Maitrey Gramopadhye

I am currently a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research interests include human robot interaction and common sense reasoning in robotics. I am particularly interested in improving the robot reasoning, using Language and Vision-Language Models, to enable human robot collaboration for long-horizon tasks. Recently, I have worked on conditioning large language models on the objects present around a robot to generate situationally aware action plans. In the past I have worked on studying the zero-shot performance of vision transformers for video object segmentation and pose propagation. I have worked on Graph Machine Learning as a researcher at AI Garage, Mastercard and I'm interested in finding ways to port my experience across fields to my current and future projects. I also interned at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore where I worked in the Computer Vision team of the Advanced Technology Lab. I completed my Bachelors in Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where I worked on my Undergraduate thesis in the field of 3D Reconstruction in Cryogenic Electron Microscopy. I also was the Software team lead for The IIT Bombay Mars Rover Team, where I worked on building rovers capable of traversing on Mars like terrain."