Robotics PhD student at Purdue, working on planning and perception. Zola 2026-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 https://shrutheeshir.github.io/atom.xml 2026-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-20T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/mcvamp-accepted/ <p>Our work on <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://commalab.org/papers/mcvamp/">Constrained Motion Planning</a> has been accepted at IROS 2026. See you in Pittsburgh!</p> 2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/mcvamp-preprint/ <p>Our work on <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://commalab.org/papers/mcvamp/">Constrained Motion Planning</a> is publicly available and under review.</p> 2026-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/spasm-accepted/ <p>Our paper <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://commalab.org/papers/spasm/">SPaSM</a> has been accepted at ICRA 2026. See you in Vienna!</p> 2025-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 2025-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/started-phd/ <p>Started my PhD in CS at Purdue, at the <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://commalab.org/">CoMMA</a> lab with <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://zkingston.com/">Prof. Zachary Kingston</a>, to work on planning for robotics.</p> 2024-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 2024-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/rss-2024/ <p>Our most recent work, “Motion Planning in Foliated Manifolds using Repetition Roadmap,” has been accepted at <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss20/">Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024</a>, held in Delft, Netherlands. It was presented on July 16, 2024. The conference paper can be found <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss20/p036.pdf">here</a>.</p> 2023-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 2023-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/irc-2023/ <p>Presented our work, “Household navigation and manipulation for everyday object rearrangement tasks,” at the IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC) Conference 2023. The pre-print can be found on <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06129.pdf">arXiv</a>.</p> 2023-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/started-aurora/ <p>Joined Aurora Innovation as a software engineer, developing safe and robust perception systems for the self-driving stack.</p> 2023-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 2023-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/graduated-ucsd/ <p>Graduated from UC San Diego with a master’s in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in robotics. Cheers to an amazing two years!</p> 2023-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 2023-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://shrutheeshir.github.io/news/presented-thesis/ <p>Presented my master’s thesis, “Improvisational Robot Tool Use using Affordance based Planning,” to my committee and a public audience.</p>