Abhishek Gupta
About
Abhishek Gupta is an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where he leads the Washington Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Development (WEIRD) Lab. Previously, Gupta was a post-doctoral scholar at MIT, collaborating with Russ Tedrake and Pulkit Agarwal. He completed his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics at BAIR at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Sergey Levine and Professor Pieter Abbeel. Previously, he completed his bachelor’s degree also at UC Berkeley. Gupta’s main research goal is to develop algorithms which enable robotic systems to learn how to perform complex tasks in a variety of unstructured environments like offices and homes. To that end, he works towards building deep reinforcement learning algorithms that can learn in the real world, with and around humans.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Learning force-based manipulation of deformable objects from multiple demonstrations
Year: 2015
Citations: 204
Venue: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Latest Recorded Paper
PEEK: Guiding and Minimal Image Representations for Zero-Shot Generalization of Robot Manipulation Policies
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18282
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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