Soumojit Bhattacharya

I am currently a Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Shubham Tulsiani and Professor Oliver Kroemer. My primary research focuses on robotic manipulation, developing manipulation pipelines that generalize across diverse objects and execute complex tasks by decomposing them into simpler motions.

Currently, I am working on diffusion policies for robotic manipulation, aiming to advance adaptable and robust manipulation strategies capable of handling variability in objects and tasks. My research strives to enable intelligent robotic systems that perform a wide range of challenging manipulation tasks efficiently and flexibly.

I graduated with a B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where I worked with Professor Aritra Hazra. I was also a member of the Autonomous Ground Vehicle Group at IIT Kharagpur, under the mentorship of Professor Debashish Chakravarty.

I began my research journey with internships at institutions, including the ARMS Lab at IIT Bombay, where I worked on path planning and decision-making for connected autonomous vehicles under Professor Arpita Sinha, developing lane-change policies in CARLA simulations that comply with Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) rules. Prior to that, I was a research intern at the I3D Lab at IISc Bangalore, working on tactile manipulation and reinforcement learning under Professor Pradipta Biswas, focusing on designing RL pipelines and behavior cloning strategies for exploration tasks using tactile data.

Driven by a vision where robots assist humans seamlessly by performing complex physical tasks, I aspire to contribute impactful research in robotics that fosters collaborative and generalizable manipulation capabilities for real-world applications.

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