Jishnu Jaykumar Padalunkal

I’m a final-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. If my experience brings value to your team, please reach out!

I work on making robots learn from minimal supervision — few-shot examples or input from humans. I build and test on physical robots and real-world scenes. My PhD thesis brings five projects together:

• FewSOL ICRA 2023 — few-shot object learning dataset
• Proto-CLIP IROS 2024 — vision-language few-shot perception
• iTeach (under submission) — learning from mistakes via human interaction and guidance
• HRT1 RA-L 2026 — training-free mobile manipulation from a single video
• RPX (under submission) — modular, foundation-model, and agentic robots all run on perception models; RPX gauges them in one unified benchmark across four real-world scenarios (clutter, interaction, clean, egocentric) captured with robot-grade cameras, so they’re chosen on evidence, not at random