Robotics researcher and engineer working at the intersection of reinforcement learning, optimal control, and legged robotics.
🎓 M.Tech in Robotics, IISc Bangalore
🤖 Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University (LOTUS Program)
🔎 Currently looking for opportunities in robotics research, controls, and learning for autonomous systems
- Morphology independent quadruped locomotion framework using CPGs + Bayesian Optimization
- Generative dynamics models for contact-rich robot control
- Learning-enabled model predictive control for gait adaptation in legged robots
- Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
- Optimal & Model Predictive Control
- Legged Locomotion
- Physics-Informed Learning
- Generative Dynamics Models
Adaptive quadruped locomotion using MPPI and learned gait optimization.
🔗 Project Website: https://sites.google.com/iisc.ac.in/autogait/home
📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20706
Physics-guided stochastic dynamics model for contact-rich robotic systems.
🔗 Website: https://prakrutk.github.io/STRIDE/
📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08478
Morphology-aware optimization of rhythmic locomotion controllers (ongoing)
🌐 Website: https://theriverroars.github.io/ganganairb.github.io
📚 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oRh8FrgAAAAJ&hl=en
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganga-nair-8b9014186/
📫 Email: ganga.nair.biju@gmail.com
"Building learning-enabled control systems for real robots."