Vishnu Dutt Sharma

Vishnu Dutt Sharma is a Robotics and Visual Computing Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs. His work focuses on robot perception, planning, and deep learning applications in autonomous systems. He holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Dr. Pratap Tokekar, and earned his MTech and BTech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2017, with a minor in Computer Science. His research interests span reinforcement learning, computer vision, and interpretable AI, particularly in robotics and natural language processing.

Before his PhD, he worked at American Express India on credit risk management using machine learning. He has interned at Nokia Bell Labs, Comcast, and FlytBase Labs. He received the Kulkarni Foundation Summer Research Fellowship in 2020 for his work at UMD.

Key contributions include advancements in robot navigation, next-best-view planning, and generative communication in embodied agents. His interdisciplinary work bridges robotics, computer vision, and NLP, with applications in healthcare, autonomous systems, and security.