Dinesh Jayaraman

Dinesh Jayaraman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with primary and secondary appointments in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), respectively. He leads the Perception, Action, and Learning (PennPAL) Research Group at the GRASP Laboratory, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision.

• Research Interests: Robotics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and autonomous systems.
• Recent Publications: His work explores vision-language models for robotic tool use, symmetry-based control acceleration, articulated object modeling, and in-context learning frameworks.
• Awards: Recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Award for innovative contributions to robotics and AI.
• Teaching: Co-teaching a robot-learning seminar (CIS 7000/ESE 6800) with Antonio Loquercio in Spring 2025.
• Students: Advising PhD candidates including Edward Hu, Arjun Krishna, and co-advised students with Osbert Bastani, Vijay Kumar, and Rajeev Alur.