I am a PhD student at
The Robotics Institute, CMU.
I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jiaoyang Li and
Prof. Maxim Likhachev.
I work on combining learning and planning methods for long-horizon tasks in robotics and beyond.
My goal is to create generalist agents that
leverage prior experience (data) to continually learn and plan, such that they are
able to improvise, improve, and adapt in real-time.
Previously, I was an MSR student
advised by Prof. David Held and
Prof. Maxim Likhachev. A video of my MSR thesis talk is [here].
Before that, I was at RRC, IIIT Hyderabad advised by
Prof. Madhava Krishna. Prior to that,
I was a part of Project Manas at Manipal Institute of Technology
The preferred way of contacting me is through email: ksaha@cs.cmu.edu
Selected Publications
(* Denotes equal contribution. Click on publication to view more)
Kallol Saha, Yining Hong, Amber Li, Yejin Choi, Maxim Likhachev, David Held
CoRL 2026 (Oral Presentation - top 1%)
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Kallol Saha*, Amber Li*, Angela Rodriguez-Izquierdo*, Lifan Yu, Ben Eisner, Maxim Likhachev, David Held
CoRL 2025 (Oral Presentation - top 5.7%)
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Kallol Saha*, Vishal Mandadi*, Jayaram Reddy*, Ajit Srikanth, Aditya Agarwal, Bipasha Sen, Arun Singh, Madhava Krishna
ICRA 2024
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Timeline
- [ Sep 2026 ] DISCO is accepted to CoRL 2026!
- [ Aug 2026 ] Started my PhD at The Robotics Institute, CMU advised by Prof. Jiaoyang Li and Prof. Maxim Likhachev
- [ Sep 2025 ] I will be attending CoRL 2025 in person!
- [ Aug 2025 ] SPOT is accepted to CoRL 2025 as an Oral Presentation (Top 5.7%)!
- [ Jul 2025 ] GPD is accepted to CASE 2025!
- [ Aug 2024 ] Started at The Robotics Institute, CMU as an MSR student with Prof. David Held and Prof. Maxim Likhachev
Other Publications
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Ajit Srikanth*, Parth Mahanjan*, Kallol Saha*, Vishal Mandadi*, Pranjal Paul, Pawan Wadhwani, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Arun Singh, Madhava Krishna
CASE 2025
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Vishal Mandadi, Kallol Saha, Dipanwita Guhathakurta, M. Nomaan Qureshi, Aditya Agarwal, Bipasha Sen,
Dipanjan Das, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Arun Singh, Madhava Krishna
CASE 2023
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Projects
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Decision Making for Swarm Robots
Aditya Singhal, Kallol Saha, Rikin Ramachandran, Umesh Mane, Soofiyan Atar, Harmanjeet Singh Bilkhu
Done during the e-Yantra Summer Internship Program 2022, CSE Department, IIT Bombay
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Kallol Saha (Team lead), Ashwin Disa, Srujan Kulkarni, Tanaya Gupte
First Prize Winner, e-Yantra Robotics Competition 2021-22, CSE Department, IIT Bombay
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Project Manas
I am an alumni of the 2020-22 batch. Meet the current team here.
A Student Project on AI and Robotics at Manipal Institute of Technology
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IPAS 2021 Certificate
Teaching & Mentoring
- Served as a Teaching Assistant for the Geometry-based Methods in Vision course, taught by Prof. Michael Kaess.
- I co-mentored an undergraduate intern (Prakhar Agarwal) from IIT Delhi who joined the R-PAD Lab under Prof. David Held in the summer of 2025
- I taught two lectures at the RRC Summer School 2023. The first lecture delved into the topics of Robot Kinematics and Quaternions, while the second focused on Deep Learning. The lecture on deep learning is available here.
- I served as a teaching assistant for the robotics laboratory course at Manipal Institute of Technology, where my responsibilities included mentoring students in ROS programming and sim2real transfer. Here is the certificate.
- During my tenure at Project Manas, I mentored junior team members in tasks related to mechanics, design and programming. Additionally, I conducted interviews to assess potential candidates interested in joining the team.