Hi!, I'm Krish, an undergraduate researcher at the Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, advised by K. Madhava Krishna and working with Sourav Garg. I'm interested in how robots should represent the world so they can reason and act in it. I explore this through 3D reconstruction, SLAM, topological maps, and interpretable representations.
I also spend a lot of time in open source. I am on the Sugar Labs board, write a fair amount of Rust, and build reproducible setups with Nix.
What I value most is curiosity. I like understanding how things work, especially when they are outside what I already know, and I enjoy learning from the way other people think and work Outside research I make and analyze music, read philosophy, play sports and video games, and watch a ton of stuff. I also take pictures, mostly of places I like and the cats and dogs I run into. Sometimes I draw too. All of them are on one page.
Reach me at bruvistrue93 at gmail dot com if you'd like to talk about research, collaboration, open source, or life.
* Equal contribution.
Predicts pixel-level planning costs as geodesic distances from a query image to an arbitrary subgoal pixel, using a VGGT backbone with a learnable goal token and an MLP cost decoder. The VGGT-Nav pipeline runs the same module twice: offline for mapping and global planning, online for localization and local planning that conditions a learnt controller.
IROS 2026 [Oral]
Adds loop closures directly in pixel space to create dense topological shortcuts. The shortcuts improve planning connectivity by over 35 percent against image-level baselines.
* Equal contribution.
Builds a pixel-level topological map from RGB sequences and generates dense WayPixel costmaps for navigation. Pixel-relative connectivity from inter-image correspondences gives globally consistent navigation without a fully consistent 3D map.
Instance-aware SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and topological navigation.
Lead the GTK4 migration of the Sugar desktop and mentor Google Summer of Code 2026.
Top tier in the first Zed Guild contributor cohort.
GTK3 to GTK4 migration and AI-driven educational features.
Taught Visual SLAM, Multi-View Geometry, and Probability at RRC. Course material.
What does "buildable" mean during a toolkit migration? Build Systems microconference.
Speaker on GTK4 and the Sugar desktop migration. Recording.
Show and tell demo of interactive DSP and signal-processing simulations, built under Virtual Labs at IIIT Hyderabad.
The rest is on Substack.
