Vainavi Viswanath Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

Publications• 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Shivakumar K., Parulekar M., Ajmera J., Kerr J., Ichnowski J., Cheng R., Kollar T., and Goldberg K. "HANDLOOM: Learned Tracing of One-Dimensional Objects for Inspection and Manipulation." Conference on Robot Learning, 2023.• Schorp V., Panitch W., Shivakumar K., 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Kerr J., Avigal Y.,Fer D., Ott L., and Goldberg K. "Self-Supervised Learning for Interactive Perception of Surgical Thread for Autonomous Suture Tail-Shortening." International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023.• Shivakumar K., 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Gu A., Avigal Y., Kerr J., Ichnowski J., Cheng R., Kollar T., and Goldberg K. "Sgtm 2.0: Autonomously untangling long cables using interactive perception." International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023.• Sharma S., Novoseller E., 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Javed Z., Parikh R., Hoque R., Balakrishna A., Brown D., and Goldberg K. "Learning Switching Criteria for Sim2Real Transfer of Robotic Fabric Manipulation Policies." Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022.• 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Shivakumar K., Kerr J., Thananjeyan B., Novoseller E., Ichnowski J., Escontrela A., Laskey M, Gonzalez J., and Goldberg K. "Autonomously untangling long cables." Robotics Science and Systems, 2022.• 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Grannen J., Sundaresan P., Thananjeyan B., Balakrishna A., Novoseller E., Ichnowski J., Laskey M., Gonzalez J., and Goldberg K. "Disentangling dense multi-cable knots." International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021.• Grannen J., Sundaresan P., Thananjeyan B., Ichnowski J., Balakrishna A., Hwang M., 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗩., Laskey M., Gonzalez J., and Goldberg K. "Untangling dense knots by learning task-relevant keypoints." Conference on Robot Learning, 2020.

Mountain View, California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

• Fast-paced, highly motivated team of engineers with the aim of building the first space shot, liquid fueled rocket made by a college team.• Systems dev for liquid fueled rocket: programming sensor integration and in-flight communication using Python and Arduino (C++).• Innovated solution to use minimal and reusable code to collect data from sensors in flight and communicate with ground station.

Greater San Diego Area

- Worked on Comet, the supercomputer, to calculate the efficiency of the job scheduler by analyzing the user job demand and resource utilization for Comet.

Greater San Diego Area

- Researched in the field of computational biology where I investigated the impacts on the molecular dynamics of two different mutations in the same residue of protein kinase A (PKA), and developed atomic level explanations for two distinct diseases which result in these mutations.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Relevant Coursework: - CS 282 - Deep Neural Networks - EE 128 - Feedback Control Systems - CS 162 - Operating Systems and System.

B.S. Electrical Engineering And Computer Science, Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), Space Enterprise at Berkeley, Maya at Cal

Mathematics

Coursework: - Multivariable Calculus - Linear Algebra

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: FTC Robotics, Coding the Future Club (Founder & President), Science OlympiadRelevant Statistics: - Weighted GPA.