Naveen Balaji

Full Name: Naveen Balaji Nagarathinam PhD student at Healthcare Robotics Lab, GT. Robotics PhD Program, Georgia Tech, Atlanta United States. Email: nnagarathinam6@gatech.edu Linkedin, Twitter, Github

About Me

I have started my Ph.D. in Robotics at Georgia Tech. My research interest is to develop mobile manipulator robots that can help older people and disabled people to do their essential daily tasks. Interested in transforming robots into cobots to collaborate with us on everyday activities. I am a research assistant in Healthcare Robotics Lab ( Dr. Charlie Kemp).

I have graduated from IIT Kanpur with B.Tech in 2021. I worked as a research assistant in the Intelligent Guidance and Control Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr.Mangal Kothari. I have developed intelligent algorithms for the aerial-robots to perform autonomous missions in indoor environments. I have been the leader of the AerialRobotics IITK group.

I spend my time reading technical books, articles, and blogs. Apart from academics; I am an athlete, I do 5k and 10k races. I bike around the city and enjoy drone photography as my hobby.

Research Interests

• Human Pose and Shape estimation in occluded scenes

• Physics Simulation

• Reinforcement learning and Control

• Optimization Methods

Find out more about my research.