Hi there! I am Raunaq and I am a postdoctoral researcher with Lerrel Pinto in the CILVR Lab at NYU Courant teaching robots to perform precise, contact-rich tasks. I received my PhD from the Robotics Institute at CMU School of Computer Science, where I was advised by Abhinav Gupta and Carmel Majidi. Previously, I was a Visiting Researcher at Meta AI leading efforts in tactile sensing and representations.
Before I started my PhD, I got a master's degree in Robotics working at the Biorobotics Lab at CMU under the guidance of Howie Choset and Matthew Travers, working on legged and modular robots. A lifetime ago, I spent 4 years as an undergrad at the IIT Bombay dabbling in debate, robotics and a ton of dynamics classes.
Connect with me over email at raunaqbhirangi [at] nyu [dot] edu!
Robotics is the most interdisciplinary of fields, and I believe that bringing robots into the unstructured, everyday world of homes and offices requires a comprehensive understanding of every aspect of robotics. I think of myself as a full-stack roboticist, and my work spans hardware development, real-world robot learning, and dexterity.
