Nishanth Jay Kumar Graduate Student Email njk@mit.edu Room 45-641K Nishanth is a Ph.D. student with the LIS Group within MIT CSAIL. He is co-advised by Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez. Nishanth's work is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. During his PhD, Nishanth has spent time at NVIDIA Research and the Robotics and AI Institute. In the past, he's been at Vicarious AI, and Uber ATG. Previously, he received an S.M. degree from MIT, an Sc.B. with honors from Brown University, and completed the IB Diploma in his hometown of Coimbatore, India. Related Links Personal Website Last updated Apr 29 '25 Research Areas AI & ML Robotics Related Links Personal Website Publications Groups Research Group Learning and Intelligent Systems We conduct interdisciplinary research aimed at discovering the principles underlying the design of artificially intelligent robots. +7 Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez Leads Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez Research Areas AI & ML Robotics Impact Areas Manufacturing Lead Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez +7 Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez
Research Group Learning and Intelligent Systems We conduct interdisciplinary research aimed at discovering the principles underlying the design of artificially intelligent robots. +7 Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez Leads Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez Research Areas AI & ML Robotics Impact Areas Manufacturing Lead Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez +7 Leslie Kaelbling Tomas Lozano-Perez
