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2024 - Now
Research Scientist at SocialRL Lab, UW, with Prof. Natasha Jaques. Adversarial environment generation for robust manipulation; human-AI coordination with adversarial training and generative models.
2022 - 2024
MS ECE at UW. & Graduate researcher at Sensor Systems Lab (RL for autonomous RC cars, MuSHR stack) and NASA JPL (ML for radiation and X-ray spectrometer calibration).
2020 - 2022
Research intern at ARAI (sensor fusion and driver package for electric vehicles). Co-Founder and Engineering Lead at Blue Zone Labs; preventive health care device.
2017 - 2021
BTech in ECE from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. Robocon team captain; national winner, represented India at ABU Robocon 2020 in Fiji.

Publications

Adversarial Environment Generation for Robust Manipulation
Paresh Chaudhary, Michael Li, Sumedh Sontakke, Abhishek Gupta, Natasha Jaques
ICML 2026 (in preparation).
Paresh Chaudhary, Yancheng Liang, Daphne Chen, Simon S. Du, Natasha Jaques
ICLR 2026

Awards

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Prof. Balakrishnan Memorial Award, ABU Robocon 2020 (Rank 1 out of 93)
Team Captain: Led the college team to victory at the National Robocon event and headed the Indian team at the International Robocon 2020 in Suva, Fiji.
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National Runner Up, ABU Robocon 2018 (Rank 2 out of 105)
Integral Team Member: Designed and implemented motion control for Omni/Meccnum holonomic drives and developed closed-loop DC/BLDC motor drivers.