Rajat Talak

I am an Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I work in SPARKlab with Prof. Luca Carlone.

My work is in the area of Robot Perception, Optimization and Learning, Autonomous Systems, and Communication Networks. See my Google Scholar Page.

If you want to discuss research or potential collaboration, you can reach me at talak@mit.edu. Happy to connect with you via LinkedIn.

Research Focus

My research focuses on:

• Robot Perception: Developing algorithms for spatial understanding and object recognition
• Optimization and Learning: Creating efficient algorithms for autonomous systems
• Autonomous Systems: Building robust navigation and control systems
• Communication Networks: Designing reliable communication protocols for multi-robot systems

Current Work

I am currently working on:

• Spatial Perception for Robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems
• Object Pose and Shape Estimation: Test-time adaptation and domain adaptation
• Multi-Robot Systems: Safe distributed control with communication delays
• 3D Scene Graphs: Language-grounded hierarchical planning and execution

Education and Experience

• Research Scientist, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BSc, Previous Institution

Collaborations

I collaborate with researchers across various institutions and work on projects that span the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning.

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