Summary
Arjun Viswanathan is a robotics and AI engineer with 13 years of experience focused on combining classical control and learning-based methods for agile legged locomotion, navigation, and human-like behaviors. As Reinforcement Learning Team Lead at Northeastern’s Silicon Synapse Lab, he develops proprioceptive DRL policies for quadrupeds and leads sim-to-real deployment across multiple robot platforms, including snake, biped, and quadruped systems. His work blends terrain-aware imitation learning with constrained control tools like Explicit Reference Governors, Lyapunov analysis, and MPC to ensure stability and real-time performance on hardware. Past projects include a fully autonomous target-tracking robot built with ROS2, EKF-based state estimation, SLAM, and LiDAR-inertial odometry, and production-facing ML pipelines at Travelers. Equally comfortable in simulation (NVIDIA IsaacSim) and field trials, he pairs rigorous research skills with practical systems engineering and a knack for translating advanced algorithms into reliable robotic behaviors.
13 years of coding experience