Hello there!

I’m a second-year Master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University, where I’m fortunate to be advised by Professor Deepak Pathak. Before this, I worked as a Research Engineer under Professor Abhinav Gupta. My research focuses on developing autonomous systems that meaningfully impact their environment through selective contact. My long-term goal is to enable robots to take on tasks that are unsafe, repetitive, or simply monotonous for humans. Currently, I’m working on visual representations that blend insights from both human and robotic experiences to accelerate robotic skill acquisition.

Previosuly, 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

• [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.