Joseph Selvaraaj

I am a grad student in the DINaMo group at MIT AeroAstro advised by Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan. My broad research interest is to build robots that can operate safely alongside other robots. To that end, I draw on ideas from control theory, optimization, game theory, and artificial intelligence.

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Bio: Before starting grad school, I worked as a software engineer at Lucid Software. I earned B.S. degrees in computer science and mathematics, and a B.B.A. in finance from UMass Amherst in 2023.

At UMass Amherst, I studied neural differential equations for modeling episode trajectories in grid environments as part of my undergraduate honors thesis with Prof. Bruno Castro da Silva.

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