Rohan Sinha
rhnsinha [at] stanford [dot] edu
PhD Candidate
Autonomous Systems Lab
Stanford University
I am a PhD candidate in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where I am a member of the Autonomous Systems Lab advised by Prof. Marco Pavone. I currently am also a student researcher at Google Deepmind Robotics, working with Sumeet Singh and Vikas Sindhwani
My research focuses on developing methodologies that improve the reliability of ML-enabled robotic systems, particularly when these systems encounter out-of-distribution conditions with respect to their training data. My work on this topic was recognized with the best paper award at RSS 2024. Broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of control theory, machine learning, and applied robotics.
Previously, I received bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley with honors and a distinction in general scholarship. As an undergraduate, I worked on data-driven predictive control under Prof. Francesco Borrelli in the Model Predictive Control Lab and on learning control algorithms that rely on vision systems under Prof. Benjamin Recht in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab. I have also interned as an autonomous driving engineer at Delphi (now Motional) and as a software engineer at Amazon.
news
Sep 1, 2023 | Thrilled to organize the first workshop on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics: Towards Reliable Learning-based Autonomy! 📅 Short paper submissions open 09/01/2023, due 10/06/23 |
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Jul 31, 2023 | Our paper, titled Semantic Anomaly Detection with Large Language Models, was accepted to the Autonomous Robots’ special issue on large language models in robotics! |
Jul 21, 2023 | I presented a tutorial Avoiding failures in ML-enabled systems: Tutorial on Runtime Monitoring and Contingency Planning at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS). I overviewed recent literature for runtime monitoring and presented some of our recent results. Thanks for the invitation! |
Jul 18, 2023 | It was an honor to give an invited talk “Towards reliable learning-enabled autonomy throughout its operational lifecycle” at the 2023 IEEE Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology - IEEE Space Computing Conference! |
Jul 11, 2023 | Our paper Closing the loop on runtime monitors with fallback-safe MPC was accepted to the 2023 IEEE CDC! Looking forwards to Singapore! |