Brief CV

I'm currently doing a PhD in Robotics at TU Berlin. I do research on dexterous manipulation with soft robot hands.

Before my masters degree, I worked for several years as a software engineer.
I live in Berlin, Germany. You can email me at aditya@bhatts.org.

Education

• University of Freiburg / MSc / Computer Science
  2016 - 2019
• DA-IICT / BTech / Information and Comuniction Technology
  2008 - 2012

Papers & Articles

• Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study
  Aditya Bhatt*, Adrian Sieler*, Steffen Puhlmann, Oliver Brock (Jul. 2021, RSS 2021)
• CrossNorm: Normalization for Off-Policy TD Reinforcement Learning 
  Aditya Bhatt, Max Argus, Artemij Amiranashvili, and Thomas Brox (Feb. 2019)
• Artificial Intelligence for Prosthetics - Challenge Solutions (NeurIPS 2018 competition book)  Kidziński et al. (Invited to present at the NeurIPS 2018 workshop)
• Stabilizing Off-Policy TD with Feature Normalization
  Aditya Bhatt (Master Thesis, Apr 2019)

Talks

• How the Body Shapes the Way we Manipulate (Embodied Intelligence 2021 workshop)
• Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study (Robotics: Science and Systems 2021 spotlight, jointly with Adrian Sieler)

Skills

• Solid real-world Python, Javascript, C++ programming skills. Strong software engineering experience.
• Very comfortable with PyTorch. Familiar with TensorFlow.
• Training Deep Networks and RL Agents
• Designing Robotic Manipulation Skills
• Building Pneumatic and Tendon-Driven Robots