Krish Pandya

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 a robot should store the world it moves through so it can navigate, which I chase through SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and topological maps.

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.

When I'm not working, I make and analyze music, read philosophy, play sports and video games, and watch a ton of stuff. I also like reading about how perception and learning work in brains and machines.

Reach me at bruvistrue93 at gmail dot com if you'd like to talk about research, collaboration, open source, or life.

Krish Pandya speaking at GNOME Asia 2025

Publications

Pixel Loop teaser

Pixel Loop: shortcut topological navigation with pixel-level loops

Sarthak Chittawar, Vansh Garg, Aditya Vadali, Krish Pandya, Rohit Jayanti, Sourav Garg, K. Madhava Krishna

IROS 2026

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.

arXiv Project page

MASt3R-Nav WayPixel costmap generation

MASt3R-Nav: WayPixel navigation in relative 3D maps

Vansh Garg, Rohit Jayanti, Krish Pandya, Sarthak Chittawar, Siddharth Tourani, Muhammad Haris Khan, Sourav Garg, K. Madhava Krishna

ICRA 2026

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.

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