Gireesh Nandiraju

Hi there! I am a first year CS PhD student at Peking University advised by Prof. He Wang, and a student researcher at Galbot. My research is supported by Beijing Government Scholarship

Prior to PKU, I worked as a research assistant at IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Prof. K Madhava Krishna. Even before that, I did my undergrad at BITS Pilani in Electronics and Instrumentation.

I am always open to research collaborations! If you are working on the topics of contact-rich/ bimanual manipulation, feel free to contact me!

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News

  • [Sep 2024]  Starting as a CS PhD student at EPIC Lab.
  • [Aug 2024]  Honored to recieve the Beijing Government Scholarship
  • [May 2024]  Presented our work GAMMA at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan.
  • [Jan 2024]  One paper accepted at ICRA 2024
  • [Jul 2023]  Relocated to Beijing and started working as an intern advised by Prof. He Wang.
  • [Jan 2023]  One paper accepted at ICRA 2023

Research

My long-term research goal is to build humanoid robots capable of navigating and manipulating objects in household environments. I am currently focusing on learning sim-to-real transferable skills for contact-rich manipulation. Here is some of my work (representative papers are highlighted):

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Generalizable Bimanual Furniture Assembly via sim2real transfer
Nandiraju Gireesh, He Wang
Work In Progress

Watch Less, Feel More: Sim-to-Real RL for Generalizable Articulated Object Manipulation via Motion Adaptation and Impedance Control
Tan-Dzung Do, Nandiraju Gireesh, Jilong Wang, He Wang
Under Review @ ICRA 2025
LFDM Workshop @ CoRL 2024
MRM-D Workshop @ CoRL 2024

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GAMMA: Graspability-Aware Mobile MAnipulation Policy Learning based on Online Grasping Pose Fusion
Jiazhao Zhang*, Nandiraju Gireesh*, Jilong Wang, Xiaomeng Fang, Chaoyi Xu, Weiguang Chen, Liu Dai, He Wang
ICRA 2024

webpage | bibtex | paper

            @misc{gamma,
              title={GAMMA: Graspability-Aware Mobile MAnipulation Policy Learning based on Online Grasping Pose Fusion}, 
              author={Jiazhao Zhang and Nandiraju Gireesh and Jilong Wang and Xiaomeng Fang and Chaoyi Xu and Weiguang Chen and Liu Dai and He Wang},
              year={2023},
              eprint={2309.15459},
              archivePrefix={arXiv},
              primaryClass={cs.RO}
        }
          
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Sequence-Agnostic Multi-Object Navigation
Nandiraju Gireesh*, Ayush Agrawal*, Ahana Datta*, Snehasis Banerjee, Mohan Sridharan, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Madhava Krishna
ICRA 2023

webpage | bibtex | paper

          @misc{sam,
            title={Sequence-Agnostic Multi-Object Navigation}, 
            author={Nandiraju Gireesh and Ayush Agrawal and Ahana Datta and Snehasis Banerjee and Mohan Sridharan and Brojeshwar Bhowmick and Madhava Krishna},
            year={2023},
            eprint={2305.06178},
            archivePrefix={arXiv},
            primaryClass={cs.RO}
      }
        
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Object Goal Navigation using Data Regularized Q-Learning
Nandiraju Gireesh, D. A. Sasi Kiran, Snehasis Banerjee, Mohan Sridharan, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Madhava Krishna
CASE 2022

webpage | bibtex | paper

            @misc{drq,
              title={Object Goal Navigation using Data Regularized Q-Learning}, 
              author={Nandiraju Gireesh and D. A. Sasi Kiran and Snehasis Banerjee and Mohan Sridharan and Brojeshwar Bhowmick and Madhava Krishna},
              year={2022},
              eprint={2208.13009},
              archivePrefix={arXiv},
              primaryClass={cs.RO}
        }
              
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Spatial Relation Graph and Graph Convolutional Network for Object Goal Navigation
D. A. Sasi Kiran*, Kritika Anand*, Chaitanya Kharyal*, Gulshan Kumar, Nandiraju Gireesh, Snehasis Banerjee, Ruddra dev Roychoudhury, Mohan Sridharan, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Madhava Krishna
CASE 2022

webpage | bibtex | paper

            @misc{srg,
              title={Spatial Relation Graph and Graph Convolutional Network for Object Goal Navigation}, 
              author={D. A. Sasi Kiran and Kritika Anand and Chaitanya Kharyal and Gulshan Kumar and Nandiraju Gireesh and Snehasis Banerjee and Ruddra dev Roychoudhury and Mohan Sridharan and Brojeshwar Bhowmick and Madhava Krishna},
              year={2022},
              eprint={2208.13031},
              archivePrefix={arXiv},
              primaryClass={cs.RO}
        }
              
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SAC-ABR: Soft Actor-Critic based deep reinforcement learning for Adaptive BitRate streaming
Mandan Naresh, Nandiraju Gireesh, Paresh Saxena, Manik Gupta
COMSNETS 2022

webpage | bibtex | paper

          @INPROCEEDINGS{sacabr,

            author={Naresh, Mandan and Gireesh, Nandiraju and Saxena, Paresh and Gupta, Manik},
          
            booktitle={2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)}, 
          
            title={SAC-ABR: Soft Actor-Critic based deep reinforcement learning for Adaptive BitRate streaming}, 
          
            year={2022},
          
            volume={},
          
            number={},
          
            pages={353-361},
          
            doi={10.1109/COMSNETS53615.2022.9668424}}
          
        
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XRayGAN: Consistency-preserving Generation of X-ray Images from Radiology Reports
Xingyi Yang, Nandiraju Gireesh, Eric Xing, Pengtao Xie
arXiv

webpage | bibtex | paper

          @misc{xray,
            title={XRayGAN: Consistency-preserving Generation of X-ray Images from Radiology Reports}, 
            author={Xingyi Yang and Nandiraju Gireesh and Eric Xing and Pengtao Xie},
            year={2020},
            eprint={2006.10552},
            archivePrefix={arXiv},
            primaryClass={eess.IV}
      }
          
        
Service

Served as a reviewer for:

  • Conference:   ICRA 2025.
  • Journal:   IEEE RA-L
  • Workshop:   LFDM Workshop @ CoRL 2024


Website template from this repo and this webpage!