I am a PhD student at Existential Robotics Laboratory, UC San Diego, where I work on reinforcement learning for robot manipulation. Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Samsung Research for 3 years.
Recently, I have been working on efficient ways to leverage offline demonstrations with online RL, to make fast, real-world RL feasible. Always happy to chat about robotics, RL, or interests beyond research (like where to find the best live music in SD). Feel free to reach out over mail!
Publications and preprints
Dwait Bhatt, Shih-Chieh Chou, Nikolay Atanasov
(Pre-print coming soon)
Website
Identifying optimal strategies for leveraging demonstration datasets to accelerate online reinforcement learning.
Sunghwan Kim, Woojeh Chung, Zhirui Dai, Dwait Bhatt, Arth Shukla, Hao Su, Yulun Tian, Nikolay Atanasov
RSS 2025 Workshop on Learned Robot Representations (Best paper nomination)
Website / Paper
Improving spatio-temporal reasoning and memory via 3D latent mapping for mobile manipulation and long-horizon tabletop manipulation.
Abdulaziz Almuzairee, Rohan Patil, Dwait Bhatt, Henrik I. Christensen
CoRL, 2025
Website / Paper / Code
Enabling view-generalization in visual reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation tasks.
Tianyu Wang, Dwait Bhatt, Xiaolong Wang, Nikolay Atanasov
arXiv, 2024
Website / Paper / Code
Learning latent manipulation policies that can be transferred to robots of different morphologies via cycle consistency and a latent dynamics constraint.
Patents
Naresh Kumar, Dwait Bhatt, Anuradha Kanukotla, Sripurna Mutalik, Prateek Bansal, Jaeho Kim, Syama Sudheesh, Renju Chirakarotu Nair
US Patent: US20230045617A1, 2023
Projects
Dwait Bhatt
Code / Demonstration Video
Teleoperation of a robot arm using a VR controller.
Dwait Bhatt, Viraj Shah, Siddharth Satyam, Shashi Dhanasekar
Technical Report
Estimating object material using audio-visual cues and techniques from multimodal LLMs.
Aayushmaan Jain, Dwait Bhatt
Technical Report
Exploring how well a new buyer's purchase preferences can be predicted using social network information.
Dwait Bhatt, Vrutik Shah, Aakarsh Gupta
Technical Report / Generated Audio Samples
Generating all background musical elements to complement a given vocal track and create a full song.
Dwait Bhatt, Sumangala Patki
Technical Report / Video Presentation
Capturing local features from a convolutional occupancy network to enhance NeRF based surface reconstruction.
Dwait Bhatt, Saksham Jindal
Technical Report
Introducing curiosity-based exploration via Random Network Distillation to solve robot manipulation tasks.
Dwait Bhatt
Technical Report
3D landmark mapping and localization with EKF SLAM using IMU and stereo camera observations.
Dwait Bhatt
Technical Report
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.
Dwait Bhatt, Deevanshu Goyal
The Googol Game / Informal Report
Pitting human intuition against an optimal solution to a variant of the Secretary Problem.