Nikhil Varma Keetha
Scholar

Nikhil Varma Keetha

Google Scholar ID: ZTm5H50AAAAJ
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
RoboticsComputer VisionPerceptionUASDeep Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,270
 
H-index
9
 
i10-index
9
 
Publications
18
 
Co-authors
54
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2024: Paper 'Map It Anywhere (MIA)' published at NeurIPS
  • 2023: Co-authored 'Survey on Foundation Models for Robotics'
  • 2023: SplaTAM project launched
  • 2023: Demonstrated GPS-denied localization on drone and helicopter in the wild
  • 2023: AnyLoc project released
  • 2023: ConceptFusion made public
  • 2022: 'AirObject' accepted to CVPR 2022
  • 2021: 'HEAPUtil' accepted to IEEE RA-L and IROS 2021, and presented at conference
  • 2021: Selected as CMU Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS)
  • 2020: Awarded ACCV 2020 Diversity Grant
  • Served as reviewer for CVPR, ICRA, IROS, ECCV, and IEEE RA-L
  • Organized 'Tartan SLAM Series' and 'RoboLaunch Initiative' at CMU, reaching 13,000+ global participants
Research Experience
  • Visiting Researcher at Meta (Pittsburgh), working with the XR Maps team
  • Research Scientist Intern at Meta Zurich, collaborating with Peter Kontschieder
  • Intern at AirLab, CMU (Spring 2021), mentored by Dr. Chen Wang and Prof. Sebastian Scherer
  • Winter 2021 Intern at REAL, Mila, mentored by Krishna Murthy and Prof. Liam Paull
  • Summer 2020 Intern at QUT Centre for Robotics, mentored by Dr. Sourav Garg and Prof. Michael Milford