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 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.

We create a method to smoothly interpolate between two existing TrueType fonts to create a new "blended" font using Bézier curve interpolation.

I built a hand-object reconstruction method and a motion planning algorithm in order to replicate the hand motions seen in YouTube videos on a Rethink Sawyer Robot with a parallel jaw gripper.

We model the behavior of a flexible Robotiq vacuum gripper attached to a Rethink Sawyer robot. This enables us to predict the mass of an grasped object by the deformation in the vacuum gripper.

Course projects:
Berkeley CS194-26 Computer Vision ( Photo colorization, Filters, Photo stitching & Facial keypoint detection)
Berkeley CS184 Computer Graphics ( Rasterizer, Mesh Editor, Path Tracing, More Path Tracing & Cloth Simulation)

Co-head Teaching Assistant & Discussion: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Discussion & Software: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021 & Spring 2022