Graduate School Admission Results

It finally happened—MIT has decided to accept reality and let me in. Rumor has it that the faculty held multiple emergency meetings, debated using a reinforcement learning algorithm to decide which lab gets me, but in the end, they figured they’d just let me choose. A little about me: Robotics is my playground, and top conferences are my playground logs. So far, I have 14 first-author papers: • 2x Science Robotics (because journals make things “real”) • 3x TRO (where experiments meet theory and both suffer) • 4x RAL (where every review says, “this work is incremental”) • 2x RSS (I may have reviewed more papers than the conference chairs) • 3x ICRA (because is it even robotics if you haven’t published at ICRA?) Funding? Apparently, they’re already pulling in industry sponsors to make sure I don’t go elsewhere. My future PI told me they’re clearing out lab space and getting extra robots just in case I need more. Research focus: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Robot Systems, Reconfigurable Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Things I do better than you: probably building robots, but let’s find out. This keeps the bragging + humor balance while making it entertaining. Let me know if you want any tweaks!

It finally happened—MIT has decided to accept reality and let me in. Rumor has it that the faculty held multiple emergency meetings, debated using a reinforcement learning algorithm to decide which lab gets me, but in the end, they figured they’d just let me choose. A little about me: Robotics is my playground, and top conferences are my playground logs. So far, I have 14 first-author papers: • 2x Science Robotics (because journals make things “real”) • 3x TRO (where experiments meet theory and both suffer) • 4x RAL (where every review says, “this work is incremental”) • 2x RSS (I may have reviewed more papers than the conference chairs) • 3x ICRA (because is it even robotics if you haven’t published at ICRA?) Funding? Apparently, they’re already pulling in industry sponsors to make sure I don’t go elsewhere. My future PI told me they’re clearing out lab space and getting extra robots just in case I need more. Research focus: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Robot Systems, Reconfigurable Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Things I do better than you: probably building robots, but let’s find out. This keeps the bragging + humor balance while making it entertaining. Let me know if you want any tweaks!

IIT Bombay, AIAA Research Paper

2 first-author pubs 2 y exp as DS 4 hackathons winner

Decided to look at application directions to see if I missed something…found this: Update posted on February 4, 2025: All applicants who have been selected to interview have been notified and have replied. We plan to admit from the pool of interviewed applicants, however official decision notifications will go out to all applicants by the first week of March. Not sure who thought that would be an appropriate way or location for rejections…

no interview

For anyone who has received an offer from MIT and is not planning to accept it, please, if possible, consider rejecting it promptly. I really, really need this offer. Thank you!

Chem bio, acceptance through portal, interviewed mid-January

I am on a cloud right now!!! I am doing Syntax :)