Hi, I'm Rahul, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Saurabh Gupta. I'm excited about all things robot learning! More recently, I've been exploring massively parallel RL and sim-to-real transfer for contact-rich manipulation, with a focus on policies that discover human-like strategies without hand-designed priors.

Previously, I finished my Bachelor's in Computer Science at IIT Hyderabad. I've had the privilege of working with Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian at IITH and with Prof. Amir Zamir at EPFL.