Hello there!

I’m an AI Researcher at Skild AI. I work on building foundation models for robots that let them generalize easily to new scenes and operate robustly in the wild.

I recently graudated with a Robotics Master’s at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Deepak Pathak and Professor Abhinav Gupta . My research focused on developing visual representations that blend insights from both human and robot data to accelerate robot skill learning.

Previously, I was a Senior Camera Systems Engineer at Qualcomm R&D building algorithms for Image Signal Processors (ISPs) in Snapdragon🐉 chipsets that power over a billion smartphones worldwide.

Beyond research, I enjoy lifting weights 🏋️‍♂️, mastering dynamic poses 🤸, and catching the latest Formula 1 race 🏎️. I’m always open to collaborating or just geeking out over cool ideas!

Email: mohankus [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

News

• [June 2025] ⚡ DexWild won the Best Paper Award at the RSS EgoAct Workshop 2025!.
• [May 2025] 🎉 Graduated from CMU and published my thesis on Learning to Generalize via Human Manipulation Priors
• [April 2025] 🎉 DexWild accepted to RSS 2025.
• [April 2025] ⚡ PARL won the Best Paper Award at the ICLR workshop on Generative Models for Robot Learning 2025!.
• [Nov 2024] 🕵 Served as a Reviewer for ICLR 2025.
• [Oct 2024] 🕵 Served as a Reviewer for ICRA 2025.
• [Sep 2024] 🎉 Bidex accepted to CoRL 2024.
• [Aug 2024] 🕵 Served as a Reviewer for CoRL 2024.
• [Jul 2024] 🎉 HRP accepted to RSS 2024.
• [Jul 2024] 🎉 DROID accepted to RSS 2024.
• [Jun 2024] ⚡ Open-X won the Best Paper Award at ICRA 2024!
• [Nov 2023] 🤖 Thrilled to demo ManiMo at CoRL 2023.
• [Oct 2023] 🥇 Excited to organize the TOTO Real Robot Challenge at NeurIPS 2023.
• [Aug 2023] 🎉 An Unbiased Look at Datasets for Visuo-Motor Pre-Training accepted to CoRL 2023.
• [Jun 2023] 🎉 Manipulate by Seeing - Creating Manipulation Controllers from Pre-Trained Representations accepted as oral presentation at ICCV 2023.
• [March 2023] 🕵 Served as a Reviewer for ICLR 2023 Neural Fields Workshop.
• [Feb 2023] 🎉 Train Offline, Test Online - A Real Robot Learning Benchmark (TOTO) accepted to ICRA 2023.
• [Dec 2022] ⚡ TOTO won the Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS workshop on Broadening Research Collaborations!.
• [Dec 2022] 🕵 Served as a Reviewer for ICRA 2023.