Naman Shah

Naman Shah

PhD Student

Arizona State Univeristy

Biography

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student working in Autonomous Agent and Intelligent Robots (AAIR) lab under the guidance of Dr. Siddharth Srivastava at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

My research interest lies in using abstraction to efficiently perform hierarchical planning to solve complex robotics tasks under uncertainty. I use concepts of hierarchical abstractions to solve different problems such as hierarchical planning and mobile manipulation in stochastic settings.

Email: namanshah@asu.edu

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019 - Present

    Arizona State University

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2017 - 2019

    Arizona State University

  • B.Eng. in Computer Engineering, 2013 - 2017

    Gujarat Technological University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Palo Alto Research Center

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Palo Alto, California
Focused on using Qulitative Spatial Relations (QSRs) to autonomsly identify structures from the visual inputs and compute task plans to build those structures using physical robots.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

AAIR-Lab, ASU

May 2018 – Present Arizona
Performing research on core AI concepts like sequential decision making under uncertainity using abstractions under the guidance of Dr. Siddharth Srivastava.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

Arizona State University

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 Arizona

Assisted Dr. Siddarth Srivastava for a grauate level Aritificial Intelligene course (CSE 571).

Responsibilites include:

  • Developing projects.
  • Creating and evaluating homeworks.
  • Holding office hours to help students with the course material.

Publications

Naman Shah, Deepak KalaVasudevan, Kislay Kumar, Pranav Kamojhalla, Siddharth Srivastava
May 2020 ICRA 2020 research

Anytime Task and Motion Policies for Stochastic Envrionments

In this paper, we provide and efficient abstraction based methods to compute task and motion policies for complex robotics task for stochastic environments.

arXiv Project Webpage Source Code Videos Presentation

Recent & Upcoming Talks

May 31, 2020 9:00 AM Virtual (Originally Paris, France)

Anytime Task and Motion Policies for Stochastic Environments

In this talk, I have presented my paper of abstraction and hierarchical refinement based combined task and motion planning approach at ICRA 2020.

Video Paper

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