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PhD student · Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad
Shailendra Sekhar
I work on autonomous driving: how cars perceive, plan and move through traffic they share with people who don't always follow the rules.
News
Imitation-BT appears at ICRA 2026 in Vienna.
Started my PhD at the Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, with Prof. K. Madhava Krishna.
Joined iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad, as a Young Research Assistant.
Finished my M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia.
Joined the Heterogeneous Robotics Lab at UGA as a Graduate Research Assistant.
Selected publication
Research- ICRA 2026
Imitation-BT: Automating Behavior Tree Generation by Echoing Reinforcement Learning Agents
Distils deep RL policies (DQN, PPO, A2C) into behavior trees you can read. Retains up to 100% of the expert's reward, often with an order of magnitude fewer nodes than prior BT synthesis.