Krishna Suresh

Newell-Simon Hall

Hamerschlag Dr.

Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213

Hello! I am a second-year PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, advised by Chris Atkeson. I work on getting robots to efficiently learn from observation and practice by leveraging human instruction. I am currently developing methods for highly-dynamic deformable object manipulation (flying knots).

I graduated from Olin College of Engineering, where I studied Robotics. At Olin, I worked with Victoria Dean on developing modular robot manipulation policies and with Paul Ruvolo on Visual-SLAM for indoor navigation to help blind/low-vision individuals.

I am passionate about all aspects of developing autonomous robot systems and have experience working with drones, manipulators, soft robots, mobile robots, and more (check out my project page!).

YouTube / GitHub / LinkedIn / Google Scholar / ksuresh2 at andrew dot cmu dot edu

news

Sep 01, 2024	“Greedy Perspectives: Multi-Drone View Planning for Collaborative Perception in Cluttered Environments” was accepted to IROS 2024 (Oral).

publications

Learning Deformable Object Manipulation Using Task-Level Iterative Learning Control

Krishna Suresh and Chris Atkeson

Under Review, 2026

arXiv Bib Website

@article{suresh2026learningdeformableobjectmanipulation,
  title = {Learning Deformable Object Manipulation Using Task-Level Iterative Learning Control},
  author = {Suresh, Krishna and Atkeson, Chris},
  journal = {Under Review},
  year = {2026},
}

Greedy Perspectives: Multi-Drone View Planning for Collaborative Perception in Cluttered Environments

Krishna Suresh, Aditya Rauniyar, Micah Corah, and 1 more author

In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{suresh2024greedy,
  title = {Greedy Perspectives: Multi-Drone View Planning for Collaborative Perception in Cluttered Environments},
  author = {Suresh, Krishna and Rauniyar, Aditya and Corah, Micah and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  month = oct,
  year = {2024},
}