My PhD research is focused on whole-body control of legged mobile manipulators and humanoids to teach them generalized and continuously adaptable skills with zero-shot sim2real transfer in unknown environments. I am working with Prof Aniket Bera at IDEAS Lab, Purdue University.

Thrilled about the future where open source will lead every technological breakthrough.

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QUALIFICATIONS


PhD Student, Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Research Assistant, Army Research Lab, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Robotics Software Engineer, Airgility Inc., Maryland, USA
Master of Engineering, Robotics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat Technological University, India

2023 - Present
2024 - Present
2020 - 2022
2018 - 2019
2012 - 2016

RESEARCH


  1. MakeWay: Visual Interactive Navigation for Legged Robots via Whole-Body Control
    Dipam Patel, Ayush Kumar, Vanshika Balaji, Shrish Mahesh, Damon Conover, Aniket Bera
    Submitted to RA-L 2026: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

  2. LatentMimic: Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion via Latent Space Imitation
    Zhiquan Wang, Yunyu Liu, Dipam Patel, Ayush Kumar, Aniket Bera, Bedrich Benes
    Submitted to IROS 2026: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems

  3. Go-SLAM: Grounded Object Segmentation and Localization with Gaussian Splatting SLAM [Paper]
    Phu Pham, Dipam Patel, Damon Conover, Aniket Bera
    IROS 2025: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

  4. Scaling Safe Multi-Agent Control for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications [Paper]
    Joe Eappen, Zikang Xiong, Dipam Patel, Aniket Bera, Suresh Jagannathan
    CoRL 2024: Conference on Robot Learning

  5. DREAM: Decentralized Reinforcement Learning for Exploration and Efficient Energy Management in Multi-Robot Systems [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Phu Pham, Kshitij Tiwari, Aniket Bera
    Submitted on arXiv 2023

  6. DroNeRF: Real-time Multi-agent Drone Pose Optimization for Computing Neural Radiance Fields [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Phu Pham, Aniket Bera
    IROS 2023: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

  7. Heuristic-based optimal path planning for neurosurgical tumor ablation [Paper]
    Ajeet Wankhede, Likhita Madiraju, Dipam Patel, Kevin Cleary, Chima Oluigbo, Reza Monfaredi
    SPIE 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling

  8. Six Sigma Improvement Opportunities in the Working Techniques of Bachhpan NGO [Paper]
    Dipam Patel, Gautam Dobariya, Darshak Desai
    ICETME 2017: 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering

  9. Mechanically Operated Cart for Pesticide Sprayer for Agriculture [Paper]
    Faijubhai Malek, Dipam Patel, Yash Padia, Mit Kundariya, Varun Jarsania
    IJIRSET 2016: International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering & Technology

YOUNG REVIEWER


Conferences: IROS 2024 (2), RSS 2024 (1), IROS 2023 (1)
Journals: ICRA 2025 Competition Proposals (5), RA-L 2025 (3), T-ASE 2024 (1), RA-L 2024 (8), ACISC Hindawi 2024 (1), RA-L 2023 (2)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR


  1. RA-M Co-Chair: IEEE RAS Student Activities Committee [Link]
    RAM Magazine Student's Corner Issues: Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 | Mar 2025 | Sep 2025 | Dec 2025
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2025: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

  2. NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) 2024: Team JARVIS [Link 1 | Link 2]
    Gurmehar Singh, Dipam Patel, Benjamin Emini, Swastik Patel, Michael Li, Madeline Willey, Michel Ladekan, Paul Greenberg, Peter Zakariya, Chawin Mingsuwan, Rodrigo Schmitt, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Nathanael Herman, Aniket Bera
    Jan - May 2024: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

  3. Patent: System and Method for Enabling Efficient Hardware-to-Software Performance [Link]
    Evandro Gurgel Do Amaral Valente, Dipam Patel
    Apr 2020: Airgility Inc., College Park, Maryland.

  4. Award: Emergency Vehicle Detection Image Recognition Challenge - $2000 First Prize [Link]
    Utsav Patel, Dipam Patel
    Nov 2018: Northrop Grumman at University of Maryland, College Park.

ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME


Direct Interaction with Astronaut Loral O'Hara onboard the International Space Station. She is an alumna of Purdue University graduated in 2009.
Jan 2024: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.


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