Jishnu Jaykumar Padalunkal
I’m a fourth-year PhD student at UT Dallas, working on robot learning with Yu Xiang at IRVL. I started as an MS student in Fall 2021 and switched to the PhD program after my first year.
🎓 I’m graduating in 2027 and looking for full-time research scientist positions in industry.
I work on making robots learn from minimal supervision — either few-shot examples (a few photos of an object) or input from humans (one demonstration video, a few iterations of guidance/correction). The work runs on real hardware, not just in simulation. My PhD thesis brings four such projects together: FewSOL (ICRA 2023), Proto-CLIP (IROS 2024), iTeach (under submission), and HRT1 (under submission).
IIIT Vadodara
2013 — 2017
RBCCPS · IISc
2018 — 2020
NVIDIA
2020 — 2021
IIT Kharagpur
2021
UT Dallas
2021 — Present
RAI Institute
2025
news
| May 1, 2026 | Won the Best Poster Award 🏆 for HRT1 at AI Days 2026. |
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| Apr 22, 2026 | UOIS Toolkit has been released! 🌟 |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Presented HRT1 at TEROS 2026 held at UT Arlington. |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Honored to receive the Louis Beecherl Jr. Graduate Fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year at the University of Texas at Dallas. |
| Mar 23, 2026 | 🎓 Successfully passed my PhD Thesis Proposal! 🌟  |