Tushar Kusnur

Applied Scientist @rai_inst · Previously @CMU_Robotics, @BITSPilaniGoa · Personal views only · he/him

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

Life update: I’m fortunate to start as Applied Scientist at The Boston Dynamics AI Institute this week! I'm excited to work on some great problems with some great people.

https://t.co/EvFI9WbdZT

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@_vaishnavh I may or may not have attended your talk that did or did not happen.

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@pratyusha_PS Congrats, Pratyusha! 🎉

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@tarashakhurana @CMU_Robotics @RamananDeva @shubhtuls @KaterinaFragiad @cvondrick @GuibasLeonidas Congrats, Tarasha! 🎉

[Tarasha Khurana @tarashakhurana]

Life update: I recently defended my PhD at @CMU_Robotics where I was advised by @RamananDeva!

Last few years were so much fun. Incredibly grateful to everyone in Smith and especially to my committee @shubhtuls @KaterinaFragiad @cvondrick and @GuibasLeonidas.

I am now at @Tesla_Optimus working on cool perception problems for humanoids!

[Vikash Kumar @Vikashplus]

Please stop making new words for simple things to make it sound fancy!!!

Neural Physics == Model based method that have been used for ages with all kinds of optimizers RL IL trajOpt Evolutionary methods, sampling based search, etc.

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@steph_milani @nyuniversity Congrats, Steph!! 🎉 I'll source tea and coffee recs from friends in the area :P

[Tarasha Khurana @tarashakhurana]

Excited to share recent work with @kaihuac5 and @RamananDeva where we learn to do novel view synthesis for dynamic scenes in a self-supervised manner, only from 2D videos!

webpage: https://t.co/e5duAXm1lm
arxiv: https://t.co/Sh98RtFaJA
code (soon): https://t.co/V4JwF4v7po

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@steph_milani @JHUCompSci @NYU_Courant Congrats Steph!! 🎉

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

@simi_97k @GoogleDeepMind @lunwang1996 Congrats Simran!

[Yifan Hou @YifanHou2]

https://t.co/NLv72CGl6W Many robotics researchers today hold a pessimistic view and think manipulation is solved and the only thing left to do is to scale up. This is why I really like this article, which shows a few potentially very large gap that most people have ignored.

[Shivam Vats @ShivaamVats]

Excited to share that our paper, "Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models," has been selected for a Spotlight presentation at #ICLR2025!🔦🤖

We scale diffusion planning to dozens of robots *without* multi-robot data by using search.

Project: https://t.co/NZk8rEVW2t 🧵

[Stephanie Milani @steph_milani]

🎇 I’m on the academic job market! I’m a PhD candidate at @mldcmu.

My research tackles challenges that arise from the sequential nature of human-AI interaction. Toward this goal, my work involves:
🤖 reinforcement learning,
🧠 foundation models, and
👩‍💻 human-centered AI.

Shares appreciated!

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

Jack Campanella and Jillian Mallon made everything that went into hosting me look effortless, and @roboticseabass and Drew Hoelscher are awesome coworkers who helped me with a few ideas for my talk and abstract last minute. [5/n; n=5]

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

Last week, I had a great time visiting and speaking for the @GRASPlab's GRASP SFI Seminar at @Penn!

My talk included a mix of technical and non-technical topics. [1/n]

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

I also had insightful one-on-one conversations with graduate students, postdocs, and professors—the sense of collaboration and enthusiasm at @GRASPlab I'd heard so much about was evident right away. [4/n]

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

We are lucky for all the free, public, accessible, and open-source software/tutorials/presentations @roboticseabass consistently produces. I don’t know how he does it. And I’m extra lucky to also be his coworker 😛

Do check out his work if you haven’t already!

[Igor Gilitschenski @igilitschenski]

As an academic, I’m clearly biased. Yet, seeing the Open AI drama unfold, I can’t help but think that, for all their flaws, universities are still the best way to keep knowledge creation open.

[Tushar Kusnur @_TusharK]

“The thing I’m most proud of in my work are the people.” “At the end of the day, we’re in a people business and seeeing them succeed is really the biggest joy that I get.”

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

The greatest accomplishment of Chad Jenkin's career (so far): the @cmdit Richard A. Tapia Award.

#TAPIA2024