Dwait Bhatt

I am an ML PhD student at Existential Robotics Laboratory, UC San Diego, where I work on robot manipulation and reinforcement learning. Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Samsung Research for 3 years.

My research goal is to develop continually aligned and helpful robots using demonstrations, explicit and implicit feedback, and intrinsic motivation. Always open to talk about AI safety, robotics, and reinforcement learning. Feel free to reach out over mail.

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Publications

	Cross Morphology Robot Manipulation Skill Transfer Tianyu Wang, Dwait Bhatt, Xiaolong Wang, Nikolay Atanasov Under submission at RA-L Learning latent manipulation policies that can be transferred to robots of different morphologies via cycle consistency and a latent dynamics constraint.
	Intelligent Boosting for Low Power-High Performance System Dwait Bhatt, Naresh Kumar, Anuradha Kanukotla, Prateek Bansal, Syama Sudheesh, Jaeho Kim IJCNN, 2022 Making apps launch faster while saving power on Android smartphones by predicting optimal duration for CPU boosting.

Patents

Method And Electronic Device for Managing a Boost Time Required for an Application Launch
Naresh Kumar, Dwait Bhatt, Anuradha Kanukotla, Sripurna Mutalik, Prateek Bansal, Jaeho Kim, Syama Sudheesh, Renju Chirakarotu Nair
US Patent: US20230045617A1, 2023

Projects

	Multimodal Material Estimation Dwait Bhatt, Viraj Shah, Siddharth Satyam, Shashi Dhanasekar Estimating object material using audio-visual cues and techniques from multimodal LLMs.
	Do Your Friends Sell You Out To Big Tech? Aayushmaan Jain, Dwait Bhatt Exploring how well a new buyer's purchase preferences can be predicted using social network information.
	Musical Accompaniment Generation Dwait Bhatt, Vrutik Shah, Aakarsh Gupta Generating all background musical elements to complement a given vocal track and create a full song.
	Locally-Aware Neural RGBD Surface Reconstruction Dwait Bhatt, Sumangala Patki Video Presentation Capturing local features from a convolutional occupancy network to enhance NeRF based surface reconstruction.
	Curiosity in Robot Learning Dwait Bhatt, Saksham Jindal Introducing curiosity-based exploration via Random Network Distillation to solve robot manipulation tasks.
	Visual-Inertial SLAM with Extended Kalman Filter Dwait Bhatt 3D landmark mapping and localization with EKF SLAM using IMU and stereo camera observations.
	Particle Filter SLAM Dwait Bhatt Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using IMU and Lidar data. Estimated trajectory is further used to recreate a texture map of the floor from RGBD images.
	Optimal Stopping Dwait Bhatt, Deevanshu Goyal The Googol Game Pitting human intuition against an optimal solution to a variant of the Secretary Problem.

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