Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Rohan Paleja

Dr. Rohan Paleja

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.

Ph.D. Students

Aarav Sane
Aarav Sane

Ph.D. Student

My current research interests lie in Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning and Interpretable ML with an interest in intersections with biological problems.

Wei Sheng
Wei Sheng

Ph.D. Student

My research focuses on human–AI collaboration and cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, with the goal of enabling learning-based agents to coordinate effectively and robustly in complex, human-rich dynamic environments.

Guanyan Ou
Guanyan Ou

Ph.D. Student

My research focuses on the robustness of multi-agent systems, leveraging a background in adversarial attacks, computer vision, and language models with the goal of developing resilient collaborative robotic systems.

Xinchen Jin
Xinchen Jin

Ph.D. Student

My current research centers on VLA models, world models, and leveraging mechanistic interpretability to understand and improve the generalizability of learned embodied policies.

Yuyang Chen
Yuyang Chen

Ph.D. Student

My current research focuses on the organization of large-scale multi-agent systems with learning. The idea is to leverage structured learning via a hierarchy to reduce the computational demands of deploying these agents.

Master's Students

Harshit Moondra
Harshit Moondra

M.S. Student

My current research interests lie in creating failure aware multi-agent systems and at the intersection of controls and learning based methods, with the goal of creating resilient robotic infrastructures capable of handling real-world uncertainties.

Karthik Sivachandran
Karthik Sivachandran

M.S. Student

My research interests lie in the fields of multi-agent reinforcement learning and game theory.

Moritz Zoellner
Moritz Zoellner

M.S. Student

I am broadly interested in robot learning and embodied AI, especially the long-term goal of building generalist robots that solve complex tasks by learning from humans, improving through experience, and understanding the physical world.

Undergraduate Researchers

Aditya Chatterjee
Aditya Chatterjee

Undergraduate Researcher

My current research focuses on mechanistic interpretability in vision-language-action models and belief tracking in partially observable adversarial game environments.

Jacob Xu
Jacob Xu

Undergraduate Researcher

My current research focuses on multi-agent collaborations and human machine teaming in open world environment.

Pranav Kumar
Pranav Kumar

Undergraduate Researcher

My research focuses on generalist policies for robotics such as VLAs, WAMs, etc.