Hrishikesh Viswanath
West Lafayette, IN, USA
PhD Student, IDEAS Lab, Purdue University
Graduate Research Assistant (2024-)
Purdue CS Grad Student Board (2022-)
About
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Dr. Aniket Bera in the IDEAS Lab. My research focuses on digital twins and foundational research problems in autonomous navigation systems, planners and robotics with a core emphasis on facilitating robust end-to-end navigation, planning and simulating diverse scenarios for agents.Current autonomous systems face a critical validation challenge, particularly in navigating the unpredictable "long-tail" of real-world events. My research addresses this through two interconnected research problems: The first being foundational generative digital twins for high-fidelity scenario creation; the second involving probabilistic end-to-end navigation frameworks incorporating semantic reasoning and Bayesian probabilistic generative frameworks.
Underlying my research is a focus on Bayesian Machine Learning and Stochastic Modeling to bridge the gap between large-scale, data-driven models and the formal principles of physics and motion.
Previously, I completed my Master's at Purdue, where I worked on the analysis of Large Language Models with Dr. Tianyi Zhang. I have also interned at ResconAI, a JHU startup, where I explored Neural Operator-based architectures for solving partial differential equations with Dr. Suhas Eswarappa Prameela and Dr. Burigede Liu.
News
| Sept 16, 2024 | Paper Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Funded as an RA through Army Research Lab |
| May 1, 2024 | Mentor project ARTEMIS wins second place in Spring Undergraduate research Conference, Purdue University |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Received Summer Research Grant |
| Mar 31, 2024 | Reviewer for 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Recipient of one time Merit Recognition Award |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Paper Accepted at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| Dec 10, 2023 | Joined the leadership team of Space and Earth Analogs Research Chapter of Purdue (SEARCH), Vice-President & Admin lead |
| Dec 2, 2023 | Selected for the on-site round of NASA SUITS 2024 |
| May 31, 2023 | Graduated with my Master's Degree! |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Joined IDEAS Lab, Purdue, as a PhD Student |
Selected Publications
2024
Reduced-Order Neural Operators: Learning Lagrangian Dynamics on Highly Sparse Graphs
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Chang Yue, Julius Berner, Peter Yichen Chen, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03925
Paper Project Page
2023
Trajectory Prediction for Robot Navigation using Flow-Guided Markov Neural Operator
Rashmi Bhaskara*, Hrishikesh Viswanath*, Aniket Bera
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Paper
Graph-based Decentralized Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Target Localization
Juntong Peng, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Aniket Bera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
Paper
ARTEMIS: AI-driven Robotic Triage Labeling and Emergency Medical Information System
Revanth Senthilkumaran, Mridu Prashanth, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Sathvika Kotha, Kshitij Tiwari, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08865
Paper Project Page
AffectEcho: Speaker Independent and Language-Agnostic Emotion and Affect Transfer for Speech Synthesis
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Aneesh Bhattacharya, Pascal Jutras-Dube, Prerit Gupta, Mridu Prashanth, Yashvardhan Khaitan, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08577
Paper Project Page
AdaFNIO: Adaptive Fourier Neural Interpolation Operator for video frame interpolation
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Rashmi Bhaskara, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10791v2
Paper Project Page
PaCMO: Partner Dependent Human Motion Generation in Dyadic Human Activity using Neural Operators
Md Ashiqur Rahman, Jasorsi Ghosh, Aneesh Bhattacharya, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16210
Paper
2022
Neural Operator: Is data all you need to model the world? An insight into the
impact of Physics Informed Machine Learning
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Abhijeet Vyas, Andrey Shor, Beatriz Medeiros, Stephanie Hernandez, Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Aniket Bera
arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13331
Paper
FairPy: A Toolkit for Evaluation of Social Biases and their Mitigation in Large Language Models
Hrishikesh Viswanath, Tianyi Zhang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05508
Paper Code
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
CS251: Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 23)
Co-Instructor, GTA at Purdue University
CS490/590: Introduction to AR/VR (Spring 23)
Graduate Teaching Assistant at Purdue University
CS502: Compiling and Programming Systems (Fall 22)
CS502: Compiling and Programming Systems (Spring 22)
Peer Teacher at PES University
CS204: Web Technologies I (Fall 2018)
Social Clubs
2023-24
Purdue SEARCH (Fall 23)
Purdue CS Graduate Student Board (Fall 23)
Purdue French Club and Francophone Student Association (Fall 23)
Indian Classical Music Association at Purdue (ICMAP) (Fall 23)
Purdue South Indian Association (Fall 23)
2022-23
Purdue Japan Student Association (Spring 23)
Purdue French Student Association (Spring 23)
Purdue CS Graduate Student Board (Fall 22)
Purdue South Indian Association (Fall 22)
2021-22
ML Journal Reading club (Fall 21)
IEEE Computer Society, Purdue (Fall 21)
Purdue Vinyl Club (Fall 21)
Bridges International, Purdue (Fall 21)
