I love the intersection of Robotics & AI. My research is focused on Interactive Navigation for Legged Mobile Manipulators in unstructured, cluttered, and unpredictable environments using Reinforcement Learning. I am working with Prof Aniket Bera at IDEAS Lab, Purdue University.
Thrilled about the future where open source will lead every technological breakthrough.

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QUALIFICATIONS


PhD Student, Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Research Assistant, Army Research Lab, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Robotics Software Engineer, Airgility Inc., Maryland, USA
Master of Engineering, Robotics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat Technological University, India

2023 - Present
2024 - Present
2020 - 2022
2018 - 2019
2012 - 2016

RESEARCH


  1. LatentMimic: Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion via Latent Space Imitation
    Zhiquan Wang, Yunyu Liu, Dipam Patel, Aniket Bera, Bedrich Benes
    Submitted to ICRA 2026: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

  2. Go-SLAM: Grounded Object Segmentation and Localization with Gaussian Splatting SLAM [Paper]
    Phu Pham, Dipam Patel, Damon Conover, Aniket Bera
    IROS 2025: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

  3. Scaling Safe Multi-Agent Control for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications [Paper]
    Joe Eappen, Zikang Xiong, Dipam Patel, Aniket Bera, Suresh Jagannathan
    CoRL 2024: Conference on Robot Learning

  4. DREAM: Decentralized Reinforcement Learning for Exploration and Efficient Energy Management in Multi-Robot Systems [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Phu Pham, Kshitij Tiwari, Aniket Bera
    Submitted on arXiv 2023

  5. DroNeRF: Real-time Multi-agent Drone Pose Optimization for Computing Neural Radiance Fields [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Phu Pham, Aniket Bera
    IROS 2023: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

  6. Heuristic-based optimal path planning for neurosurgical tumor ablation [Paper]
    Ajeet Wankhede, Likhita Madiraju, Dipam Patel, Kevin Cleary, Chima Oluigbo, Reza Monfaredi
    SPIE 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling

  7. Six Sigma Improvement Opportunities in the Working Techniques of Bachhpan NGO [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Gautam Dobariya, Darshak Desai
    ICETME 2017: 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering

  8. Mechanically Operated Cart for Pesticide Sprayer for Agriculture [Paper]
    Faijubhai Malek, Dipam Patel, Yash Padia, Mit Kundariya, Varun Jarsania
    IJIRSET 2016: International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering & Technology

YOUNG REVIEWER


Conferences: IROS 2024 (2), RSS 2024 (1), IROS 2023 (1)
Journals: ICRA 2025 Competition Proposals (5), RA-L 2025 (3), T-ASE 2024 (1), RA-L 2024 (8), ACISC Hindawi 2024 (1), RA-L 2023 (2)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR


  1. RA-M Co-Chair: IEEE RAS Student Activities Committee [Link]
    RAM Magazine Student's Corner Issues: June 2024 | September 2024 | March 2025 | September 2025
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2025: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, USA

  2. NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) 2024: Team JARVIS [Link 1 | Link 2]
    Gurmehar Singh, Dipam Patel, Benjamin Emini, Swastik Patel, Michael Li, Madeline Willey, Michel Ladekan, Paul Greenberg, Peter Zakariya, Chawin Mingsuwan, Rodrigo Schmitt, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Nathanael Herman, Aniket Bera
    Jan - May 2024: Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  3. Patent: System and Method for Enabling Efficient Hardware-to-Software Performance [Link]
    Evandro Gurgel Do Amaral Valente, Dipam Patel
    Apr 2020: Airgility Inc., Maryland, USA

  4. Award: Northrop Grumman - Emergency Vehicle Detection Image Recognition Challenge - $2000 First Prize [Link]
    Utsav Patel, Dipam Patel
    Nov 2018: University of Maryland, College Park, USA

ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME


Direct Interaction with Astronaut Loral O'Hara onboard the International Space Station. She is an alumna of Purdue University graduated in 2009.
Jan 2024: Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA


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LAST WEEK I LEARNED

 # 5 | Clocks, numbness, sanitizer, hair, frozen foods New
  1. Why are display clocks always set to 10:10?
  2. Why do our hands or legs get numb in certain positions?
  3. What are the long term effects of using hand sanitizer regularly?
  4. Why do humans have different types of hair?
  5. Are frozen foods safe to consume regularly?

 # 4 | Mosquitoes, unions, camera, drive-through, credit card
  1. Can we eradicate mosquitoes?
  2. Why are labor unions bad for companies?
  3. Why are camera lenses round but photographs rectangular?
  4. Why do cashiers at drive-through restaurants ask you to back up sometimes?
  5. How does a credit card chip work?

 # 3 | Weather, semiconductors, acidity, yoga, yawn
  1. Why is the weather in the US so drastic?
  2. Why is there a shortage of semiconductors?
  3. What exactly is the cause of acidity?
  4. How does Yoga affect our body?
  5. Are yawns really contagious?

 # 2 | Music, baby, cicadas, police, floating objects
  1. Will we ever run out of new music?
  2. What goes on inside a baby's mind?
  3. Why are we suddenly seeing so many cicadas in the US?
  4. Why do the police touch the taillight of the car when stopped?
  5. What are the invisible floating objects that we see in our eyes?

 # 1 | Traffic light, water, vicks, cookies, vitamin D
  1. How is the duration of yellow traffic light decided?
  2. What is the shelf life of water?
  3. How does Vicks VapoRub work?
  4. Why are all websites suddenly asking for cookies?
  5. How does our body get vitamin D from sunlight?