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), a few-shot object dataset; Proto-CLIP (IROS 2024), vision-language few-shot perception; iTeach (under submission), learning from human interaction and guidance; and HRT1 (under submission), mobile manipulation from a single human video.