Summary
Utkarsh Mishra is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics at Georgia Tech with eight years of research and engineering experience spanning academia and industry. He focuses on the intersection of generative AI, intelligent planning, and reinforcement learning for robotics and self-driving systems, working with Dr. Yongxin Chen and Dr. Danfei Xu. His background includes internships and research roles at Toyota Research Institute, Sony R&D, Amazon, IISc, and University of Alberta, reflecting a strong track record of moving ideas from theory to applied systems. Trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Roorkee, he brings cross-disciplinary craftsmanship—combining control, learning, and system-level thinking—to robotics problems. Less obvious: alongside high-profile internships he has practical hands-on experience with motorsports aerodynamics and open-source robotics contributions, showcasing an uncommon blend of mechanical intuition and ML-driven autonomy.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Hindi, Bengali