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
Jun 25, 2025 | Our paper on robot data curation, CUPID, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2025 RSS workshop on Robot Evaluation for the Real World! |
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Jun 9, 2025 | Thrilled to organize the second workshop on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics: Towards Reliable Learning-based Autonomy at RSS 2025! đź“… Short paper submissions due 06/09/25 |
May 2, 2025 | Thrilled to organize the first workshop on Safely Leveraging VLMs in Robotics at ICRA 2025! đź“… Short paper submissions due 05/02/25 |
Aug 19, 2024 | Our paper AESOP, which explores the use of LLMs to increase robot safety and reliability, won the RSS 2024 Conference’s overall Best Paper Award! AESOP was also featured on NVidia Drive and on TechXplore. |
Jun 22, 2024 | Started as a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind Robotics with Sumeet Singh and Vikas Sindhwani! |