Rahul Ramachandran

Rahul is a first-year CS PhD student working with Professor Saurabh Gupta on sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation. He received his B.Tech from IIT Hyderabad and spent a summer at EPFL, where his work evaluating multimodal foundation models on vision tasks was published at ICLR 2026. His current research focuses on learning contact-rich manipulation policies in simulation.