Kartik Nagpal

Howdy! I am a PhD Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. I am part of the ICON Lab under Dr. Negar Mehr. I began my PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and followed my advisor in transferring to UC Berkeley. My research is currently focussed on the application of Autonomous techniques to Aerospace Engineering, with a focus on applying Machine Learning and Game Theory to these problems. I am also particularily interested in inverse games and imitation learning.

During my undergrad, I was an assistant researcher in the UT Autonomous Systems Group which operates under Dr. Ufuk Topcu, and more specifically I did research alongside postgrad Yue Yu on Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithms for UAVs, and Ph.D. Candidate Steve Carr on Grid World Simulation Generation for Self-Driving Cars. Additionally, I was a member of the ASTRIAGraph team which works to gather all relevant data on Anthropogenic Space Objects(ASOs) from a variety of sources and do data analysis and matching on a massive scale, thus forming the largest Space Domain Awareness data framework in the world, which is mostly overseen by Texas Advanced Computing Center Staff and Dr. Moriba Jah.