I am a first-year PhD student in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, advised by Prof. Constantinos Chamzas and part of the ELPIS Lab. My research focuses on learning representations in the latent space for Robot Task and Motion Planning.

In another lifetime, I worked with Eugen Solowjow's team at Siemens in Berkeley, California, conducting research on industrial manipulation and manufacturing. Our work involved transitioning technologies from TRL Level 3 to TRL Level 7, supported by the ARM Institute via the Department of Defense and NIST. I contributed to projects including tactile manipulation for defect detection of aircrafts (in collaboration with Boeing, CMU and Gelsight) and textile manipulation (in collaboration with Levi's and Bluewater Defense).

ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) 2025

Jeel Chatrola*, Abhiroop Ajith*, Kevin Leahy, Constantinos Chamzas
* Equal contribution

Paper

Abhiroop Ajith*, Gokul Narayanan*, Jonathan Zornow, Carlos Calle, Auralis Herrero Lugo, Jose Luis Susa Rincon, Chengtao Wen, Eugen Solowjow
* Equal contribution

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2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Arpit Agarwal, Abhiroop Ajith, Chengtao Wen, Veniamin Stryzheus, Brian Miller, Matthew Chen, Micah K Johnson, Jose Luis Susa Rincon, Justinian Rosca, Wenzhen Yuan