rj277 [at] cornell [dot] edu I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, where I work with Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee on building caregiving robots that can assist individuals with activities of daily living. My research has been recognized with awards / nominations at top robotics venues including RSS, HRI, ICRA, and IROS. Before Cornell, I received my bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur. During my time there, I worked with Prof. P. P. Chakrabarti on multi-agent pathfinding, graduated second in my department, and received the Best Thesis Award. Over the summers, I have had the pleasure of working at the Robotics and AI Institute, with Prof. Dorsa Sadigh at Stanford University, Prof. Maxim Likhachev at Carnegie Mellon University, with Microsoft India, and with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa at University of Washington. cv | google scholar | twitter | github |
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T. Silver, R. K. Jenamani, Z. Liu, B. Dodson, T. Bhattacharjee
In Submission, 2025
R. K. Jenamani, et al.
In Submission, 2025
M. Keely, B. Franco, C. Grothoff, R. K. Jenamani, T. Bhattacharjee, D. P. Losey, H. Nemlekar
In Submission, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025
R. K. Jenamani, T. Silver, B. Dodson, S. Tong, A. Song, Y. Yang, Z. Liu, B. Howe, A. Whitneck, T. Bhattacharjee
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025
🏆 Best Paper Award
R. K. Jenamani
PhD Thesis Proposal — HRI Pioneers Workshop, 2025
R. Banerjee, R. K. Jenamani*, S. Vasudev*, A. Nanavati, S. Dean†, T. Bhattacharjee†
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
🏆 Best Paper Award Finalist (HRI)
R. K. Jenamani*, P. Sundaresan*, M. Sakr, T. Bhattacharjee†, D. Sadigh†
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024
E. K. Gordon*, R. K. Jenamani*, A. Nanavati*, et al.
Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2024
🏆 Best Demo Award
R. K. Jenamani, D. Stabile, Z. Liu, A. Anwar, K. Dimitropoulou, T. Bhattacharjee
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2024
🏆 Best Systems Paper Award Finalist
R. Madan*, R. K. Jenamani*, V. T. Nguyen, A. Moustafa, X. Hu, K. Dimitropoulou, T. Bhattacharjee
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
American Occupational Therapy Association - INSPIRE, 2025
R. Ye*, W. Xu*, H. Fu, R. K. Jenamani, V. Nguyen, C. Lu, K. Dimitropoulou, T. Bhattacharjee
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
🏆 Best Robocup Paper Award, Finalist for Best Paper Award / Best Student Paper Award
R. K. Jenamani
B.Tech. Thesis - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2021
🏆 Best Thesis Award
Cornell Chronicle, May 8, 2024
Cornell Chronicle, November 29, 2022
Cornell Chronicle, 25 July 2022
IEEE Spectrum Video Friday, 14 January 2022
Interesting Engineering, 11 January 2022
Cornell Chronicle, 10 January 2022
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