Austin Patel

I'm an Electrical Engineering PhD student at Stanford University conducting robotics and embodied AI research in the REAL lab with Professor Shuran Song. My engineering and research interests are in the fields of deep learning, computer vision and robotics.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. During my undergrad, I conducted research on 3D hand-object pose reconstruction from internet videos advised by Ilija Radosavovic and Professor Jitendra Malik. I also was part of the Berkeley Autonomous Microsystems Lab where I researched micro-robotics with Alex Moreno and Professor Kristofer Pister.

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We train an embodiment-aware policy capable of zero-shot control of unseen hand designs using a single set of network weights.

We extract 4D hand-object trajectories from internet videos and train robots to imitate the reconstructed object motions.

We create a microrobot with a MEMS gripper, microprocessor/crystal-free radio, and solar cell capable of grasping tiny objects via remote control.

We create a wireless sensing node with microprocessor/crystal-free radio and solar cell that's capable of dynamically correcting its radio oscillator with temperature changes.