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

I am broadly interested in creating robust autonomous agents that operate with minimal or no human supervision, in the wild. My research focuses on learning for perception and robot control. Here is some of my work (representative papers are highlighted):

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Bimanual Dexterous Tool Manipulation from Human Videos
Nandiraju Gireesh, He Wang
Work In Progress

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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

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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}
      }
          
        

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