Scholar
Akash Sharma
Google Scholar ID: LhKc2CsAAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University | FAIR at Meta
Citations & Impact
Citations
107
H-index
5
i10-index
5
Publications
10
Co-authors
20
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper “Sparsh-X” accepted as an Oral presentation at CoRL 2025
- - Paper “Sparsh-skin” accepted at CoRL 2025
- - Paper “DexterityGen: Foundation controller for Unprecedented Dexterity” accepted at RSS 2025
- - Paper “Sparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensing” accepted at CoRL 2024
- - Paper “Neural Radiance Fields with LiDAR Maps” accepted at ICCV 2023
- - Paper “Compositional and Scalable Object SLAM” accepted at ICRA 2021
Research Experience
- - Visiting Researcher at FAIR, Meta, collaborating with the FAIR Robotics team
- - Former Software Engineer at Infinera
Education
- - Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Michael Kaess
- - Master's in Robotics from CMU, thesis on Object SLAM for robot navigation
- - Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE)
Background
- Research interests include robot perception, multi-modal sensing (such as vision and touch) for dexterous manipulation, state estimation, and reconstruction in dynamic environments. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Miscellany
- Enthusiast of mechanical keyboards, currently using a custom-built Sofle Keyboard.
