Aryan Satpathy

I am a MSR student at CMU advised by Prof. Deepak Pathak. I completed my Bachelors from Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, majoring in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. Previously, I've worked with Prof Amir Khajepour, Prof Duc Pham and Prof Saumik Bhattacharya.

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Research

My broad research interests lie in enabling AI to reason about scientific domains.

Experience

University Of Waterloo
Research Intern, Guide: Prof Amir Khajepour
May - July, 2023

Worked on perception for lidar and camera for autonomous driving of robot in indoor and outdoor scenarios. Worked on multi-camera multi-object tracking and sensor fusion.

University Of Birmingham
Research Intern, Guide: Prof Duc Pham
April, 2022 - February, 2023

Worked on Bees Algorithm and its application in combinatorial optimization(GVRP). Presented our work in BAA 2022.

Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur

Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT), Kharagpur
Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Eng.
Micro Specialization in Artificial Intelligence
December, 2020 - May 2024

Bachelors' Thesis: MAT-RL (Advisor: Prof Somesh Kumar)

News

[Dec 2024]

Our paper on backdoor and adversarial attacks targetting SSL was accepted at ICASSP 2025. See you at Hyderabad!

Publications

	Solving Physics Olympiad via Reinforcement Learning on Physics Simulators Aryan Satpathy^, Mihir Prabhudesai^, Yangmin Li, Zheyang Qin, Nikash Bhardwaj, Amir Zadeh, Chuan Li, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Deepak Pathak (* denotes core contributors, ^ denotes co-lead) arxiv coming soon website / pdf Converting physics simulators into cheap, scalable data generators to distill physical reasoning into LLMs.
	Understanding Protein-DNA Interactions by Paying Attention to Protein and Genomics Foundation Models Dhruva Rajwade, Erica Wang, Aryan Satpathy, Alexander Brace, Hongyu Guo, Arvind Ramanathan, Shengchao Liu, Anima Anandkumar Neurips 2024 Workshop Foundation Models for Science: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges openreview / code Understanding DNA Protein interactions using Deep Learning.
	Towards Adversarial Robustness And Backdoor Mitigation in SSL Aryan Satpathy, Dhruva Rajwade, Nilaksh, Somesh Kumar to appear at ICASSP 2025* (* denotes equal contribution) paper / code Defense against backdoor attacks targetting SSL.
	Bees Algorithm for Green Vehicle Routing Problem Aryan Satpathy, Millon Madhur Das, Natalia Hartono, Duc Pham In: Pham, D.T., Hartono, N. (eds) Intelligent Engineering Optimisation with the Bees Algorithm. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Cham. chapter / code Bees Algorithm for Green Vehicle Routing Problem with multiprocessing support.

Projects

	Indoor Sensor Node Perception MITACS GRI, 2023 code / documentation Multi-modal multi-object detection and tracking with overhead camera and LiDAR sensors.
	Parallel Robot Control Self Project code Implemented 6-DOF Stewart Platform and SeeSaw Environment(1-DOF approximation of Stewart Platform), in the IsaacGym framework.
	Drone Perception IMAV Indoor Challenge, 2023 code Perception stack with Lane Tracking and QR landing abilities for drones in indoor setting (without GPS reliance).
	Shader Sandbox Self Project code / video Shader implementation of Raytracing, Fog and other effects.

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