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rj277 [at] cornell [dot] edu I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, and a part-time Research Scientist at the Robotics and AI Institute. I build learning-based robotic systems that move beyond the lab, operating in real homes, assisting real people, and continually learning over long-term deployments. My research has earned awards at top robotics venues including RSS, HRI, ICRA, and IROS. During my Ph.D., I have spent summers at the Robotics and AI Institute and Stanford University (with Prof. Dorsa Sadigh). Before that, I completed my B.Tech. in CS at IIT Kharagpur, where I worked with Prof. P. P. Chakrabarti on multi-agent pathfinding, graduated second in my department, and received the Best Thesis Award. I am currently seeking postdoc and research scientist roles in robotics. cv | google scholar | twitter | github |
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- [Sep 2025] Continuing as part-time research scientist at RAI Institute.
- [Jun 2025] 🏆 FEAST won the Best Paper Award at RSS 2025!
- [May 2025] Spending the summer at RAI Institute working on preference learning.
- [Apr 2025] 🏆 To Ask or Not to Ask got nominated for Best Paper Award (HRI) at ICRA 2025!
- [Dec 2024] Got selected for the HRI Pioneers Workshop at HRI 2025.
- [Dec 2024] Passed my A-exam (thesis proposal)! Officially a PhD candidate now. 🤓
- [Nov 2024] Organizing a physical caregiving robots workshop at HRI 2025.
- [Mar 2024] 🏆 Our robot-assisted feeding system won the Best Demo at HRI 2024!
- [Feb 2024] 🏆 Feel the Bite got nominated for Best Paper at HRI 2024!
Papers are sorted by recency. Representative works are highlighted.
R. Shah, R. K. Jenamani, X. Zhang, L. Sun, R. Martín-Martín, Y. Zhu, D. Ramanan, K. Schmeckpeper
In Submission, 2025
T. Silver, R. K. Jenamani, Z. Liu, B. Dodson, T. Bhattacharjee
In Submission, 2025
A. Padmanabha, J. Yuan, T. Mehta, R. K. Jenamani, et al.
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
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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