@vdorbala

CS PhD Student at UMD

Joined October 2016
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Vishnu Sashank Dorbala retweeted
GAMMA UMD
@gammaumdAug 21
Congrats to Vishnu @vdorbala on recently defending his PhD dissertation, “Foundation Models as Priors for Embodied, Language-Guided Navigation”! Great work on embodied navigation and foundation models — wishing him all the best in the next chapter! 🎉
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GAMMA UMD
@gammaumd17 Jun 2024
Today in poster session 1, @vdorbala will present "Can LLMs Generate Human-Like Wayfinding Instructions? Towards Platform-Agnostic Embodied Instruction Synthesis" (bit.ly/4c5yg5Q) with @schowdhury671 @dmanocha
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GAMMA UMD
@gammaumd8 Apr 2024
A couple of GAMMA members took a break from the lab to view the eclipse today 😎
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GAMMA UMD
@gammaumd28 May 2023
#ICRA2023 starts tomorrow! GAMMA presenting 10 papers and co-organizing 1 workshop. ✈️🐄💡🏋️🦮📹🏎️🥽 What do these emojis have to do with our research? Expand the thread to find out! 🤖🧵⬇️
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Calling in Our Corals g.co/arts/dyf2NKxJkcLNNLUE6?… via @googlearts

Calling in Our Corals - Google Arts & Culture

In just three minutes help marine biologists attempt to bring life back into coral reefs.

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Vishnu Sashank Dorbala retweeted
GAMMA UMD
@gammaumd13 Dec 2022
GAMMA will be presenting 1 conference paper and 1 workshop paper at CoRL 2022 @corl_conf . More details below:
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Vishnu Sashank Dorbala retweeted
GAMMA UMD
@gammaumd17 Jul 2022
Vishnu @vdorbala is a PhD student advised by Prof. Dinesh. His research focuses on achieving Embodied AI in social environments. His current research on visual-language navigation is on enabling robots decipher naturally spoken language into actions in a household environment.
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Rohan Chandra@rohanchandra3010 May 2022
📢We are accepting submissions to our workshop, "Behavior-driven Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments (@BADUE22)", to be held at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan from 23rd-27th October 2022. Website (more details): gamma.umd.edu/workshops/badu…
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“You can be cursed by your own knowledge” — Cindy Xiong link.medium.com/u7RVnIlzdlb

Same Data, Multiple Perspectives: Curse of Knowledge in Visual Data Communication

TLDR: Visualizations can communicate ambiguous messages. What we see in a visualization may be guided by our background knowledge…

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Happy to share that my work on Reinforcement Learning for Social Robot Navigation has been accepted at ICRA 2021! Paper: lnkd.in/d_MVciW #ICRA2021 #ICRA #robotics
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Vishnu Sashank Dorbala retweeted
The Harvard Crimson
@thecrimson8 Jul 2020
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday morning against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ow.ly/QY2z50AsJX1

Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Authorities Over Rule Barring International Students from Online-Only...

Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Authorities Over Rule Barring International Students from Online-Only Universities

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Nestor "the boss" Gomez@soloyochapin3 Jul 2020
Replying to @itsJeffTiedrich @realDonaldTrump
Inept @realDonaldTrump MADE AMERICA FIRST sadly @POTUS made America first as the country with MOST #COVIDー19 cases and deaths in the world #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #TrumpLiesAmericansDie nestorgomezstoryteller.com/i…
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The Hill
@thehill1 Jan 2020
Question: What's your New Year's Resolution? First Lady Melania Trump: "Peace on the world." President Trump: "Peace is right but I'm not sure you're supposed to say a resolution out loud." #2020NewYear #NewYearsEve2020
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The Hill
@thehill1 Jan 2020
Question: What's your New Year's Resolution? First Lady Melania Trump: "Peace on the world." President Trump: "Peace is right but I'm not sure you're supposed to say a resolution out loud." #2020NewYear #NewYearsEve2020
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Vaasudev Narayanan@vaasudev967 Dec 2018
How people used to work before @StackOverflow and @github is beyond me. A huge shoutout to these two. What would we do without you?
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Vishnu Sashank Dorbala retweeted
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
@jm_alexia13 Dec 2018
1/ I have been asked by many people how I managed to be accepted to @MILAMontreal after two years of trying. Here's my story. Last year I reached out to a new prof at MILA and I audited their class.
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Generative Modelling using Python : An introduction to GAN's and VAE's | PyCon India 2018 in.pycon.org/cfp/2018/propos… ##pyconindia via @pyconindia
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