Gautham Narayan Narasimhan

Hello! I am currently a senior perception engineer at Aeva working on developing machine learning products for lidar data. Previously, I worked as a computer vision research engineer at Path Robotics to build the perception stack for autonomous robotic welding.

In another life I was a research assistant at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University where I completed my masters thesis with Prof. David Held at CMU. I study machine learning algorithms that enable robots to perceive and interact with the real world.

Contact: gauthamnarayn (at) gmail.com

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News
Nov 2022 : Joined Aeva as a senior perception engineer to work on ML models for Lidar data
June 2022 : Carnegie Mellon SCS wrote an article on our work in Robotic Pouring - [Link]
Jan 2022 : Self-supervised Transparent Liquid Segmentation for Robotic Pouring accepted to ICRA 2022!
Oct 2020 : ROLL: Visual Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning with Object Reasoning accepted to CoRL 2020!


Invited Talks
July 2022 : Intel Embodied AI Lab - Transparent Liquid Image Segmentation For Robotic Pouring [Slides]


Research and Publications
clean-usnob Learning Material Properties using a Differentiable Simulator for Liquid/Granular manipulation
Gautham Narayan, Xingyu Lin, David Held
In progress

Currently training a Material Point Method based differentiable simulator to learn material properties. Cross Entropy Method has shown good performance for trajectory optimization once the material properties have been learnt. More details coming soon ...

clean-usnob Self-supervised Transparent Liquid Segmentation for Robotic Pouring
Gautham Narayan, Kai Zhang, Ben Eisner, Xingyu Lin, David Held
ICRA 2022 and abridged at NeurIPS 2021 Deep Generative Models Workshop

A novel segmentation pipeline that can segment transparent liquids such as water from a static, RGB image without requiring any manual annotations. We show that this system can run in real-time and aid in tasks such as robotic pouring.

[Paper] [Website] [Code]
clean-usnob ROLL: Visual Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning with Object Reasoning
Yufei Wang*, Gautham Narayan*, Xingyu Lin, Brian Okorn, David Held
* denotes equal contribution
Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2020

Unknown object segmentation to learn a visual representation that can reason about occlusions. Our method achieves state of the art on object manipulation benchmarking tasks.

[Paper] [Website] [Code]
clean-usnob Segmentation for learning image based goal conditioned policies
Gautham Narayan, David Held
Master's Thesis - Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
clean-usnob Experimental Droplet Spatter Analysis Using Least Squares Approximation
Gautham Narayan, Bill Eddy
Internal Report - NIST Center of Excellence in Forensic Science, 2020
clean-usnob Effect of winglets induced tip vortex structure on the performance of subsonic wings
Gautham Narayan, Bibin John
Elsevier - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2016

Design optimization for subsonic winglets using computational fluid dynamics.

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