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
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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
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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
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@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
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@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
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Agents that are aware of the separation between the environments and themselves can leverage this understanding to form effective representations of visual input. We propose an approach for learning such structured representations for RL algorithms, using visual knowledge of the agent, which is often inexpensive to obtain, such as its shape or mask. This is incorporated into the RL objective using a simple auxiliary loss. We show that our method, SEAR (Structured Environment-Agent Representations), outperforms state-of-the-art model-free approaches over 18 different challenging visual simulation environments spanning 5 different robots.
@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
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Agents that are aware of the separation between the environments and themselves can leverage this understanding to form effective representations of visual input. We propose an approach for learning such structured representations for RL algorithms, using visual knowledge of the agent, which is often inexpensive to obtain, such as its shape or mask. This is incorporated into the RL objective using a simple auxiliary loss. We show that our method, SEAR (Structured Environment-Agent Representations), outperforms state-of-the-art model-free approaches over 18 different challenging visual simulation environments spanning 5 different robots.
@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
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@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
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@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}
}
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Service
Served as a reviewer for:
- Conference: ICRA 2025.
- Journal: IEEE RA-L
- Workshop: LFDM Workshop @ CoRL 2024
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