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Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Research

• Graduate Researcher, GRASP Lab
• Research areas: robotics, computer vision, embodied AI, Gaussian Splatting, simulation, and vision-language-action models

Honors

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Publications

PhysGS: Bayesian-Inferred Gaussian Splatting for Physical Property Estimation

Chopra, S., Liang, J., Seneviratne, G., & Manocha, D. (2026). "PhysGS: Bayesian-Inferred Gaussian Splatting for Physical Property Estimation." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 18980-18990.

Splatblox: Traversability-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Robot Navigation

Chopra, S., Liang, J., Seneviratne, G., Lee, Y., Choi, J., An, J., Cheng, S., & Manocha, D. (2025). "Splatblox: Traversability-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Robot Navigation." arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18525.

EveryDayVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable Robotic Manipulation

Chopra, S., McMoil, A., Carnovale, B., Sokolson, E., Kubendran, R., & Dickerson, S. (2025). "EveryDayVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable Robotic Manipulation." arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.05397.