Nishanth Kumar
Scholar

Nishanth Kumar

Google Scholar ID: FE512o4AAAAJ
Ph.D. Student, MIT
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsPlanningReinforcement Learning
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Publications
8 items
TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Planning System for Robotic Manipulation
2026
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Follow the Signs: Using Textual Cues and LLMs to Guide Efficient Robot Navigation
arXiv.org · 2026
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Seeing is Believing: Belief-Space Planning with Foundation Models as Uncertainty Estimators
2025
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Guided Exploration for Efficient Relational Model Learning
2025
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Predicate Invention from Pixels via Pretrained Vision-Language Models
2024
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Open-World Task and Motion Planning via Vision-Language Model Inferred Constraints
arXiv.org · 2024
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3
VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning
arXiv.org · 2024
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3
Predicate Invention for Bilevel Planning
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022
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41
Resume (English only)
Education
  • Final-year Ph.D. student in the LIS Group at MIT CSAIL
  • Advised by Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez
  • S.M. from MIT
  • Sc.B. with honors from Brown University
  • Completed IB Diploma in Coimbatore, India
Co-authors
55 total
Leslie Kaelbling
Leslie Kaelbling
Unknown affiliation
Tomas Lozano-Perez
Tomas Lozano-Perez
Professor of Computer Science, MIT
Tom Silver
Tom Silver
Assistant Professor at Princeton
Willie McClinton
Willie McClinton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stefanie Tellex
Stefanie Tellex
Brown University
George Konidaris
George Konidaris
Brown
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