Hello, I'm Kowndinya Boyalakuntla

I am a graduate student at Rutgers University, where I work on robot manipulation and language-guided robotics. I am advised by Jingjin Yu. Previously, I was an undergraduate student at the IIT Tirupati advised by Sridhar Chimalakonda and Kalidas Yeturu.

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Computer Science (Robotics)
PhD
Sep. 24 - May 29

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Computer Science
Masters
Aug. 22 - Oct 24

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UG Researcher
Dec. 19 - May 22

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Visiting Scholar
Jul. 20 - Sep. 20

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Computer Science and Engineering
B.Tech
Jul. 17 - Jul. 21

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Publications

DAP: Diffusion-based Affordance Prediction for Multi-modality Storage

DAP: Diffusion-based Affordance Prediction for Multi-modality Storage

Haonan Chang, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Yuhan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Liam Schramm, Abdeslam Boularias
IROS, 2024

A computationally efficient approach to storing objects in multimodal containers.

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LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement

LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement

Haonan Chang, Kai Gao, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Alex Lee, Baichuan Huang, Harish Udhaya Kumar, Jingjin Yu, Abdeslam Boularias
IROS, 2024

A novel framework to the executable complex geometric rearrangement problem.

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Context-Aware Entity Grounding with Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs

Context-Aware Entity Grounding with Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs

Haonan Chang, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Shiyang Lu, Siwei Cai, Eric Pu Jing, Shreesh Keskar, Shijie Geng, Adeeb Abbas, Lifeng Zhou, Kostas Bekris, Abdeslam Boularias
CoRL, 2023

An Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph (OVSG), a formal framework for grounding a variety of entities such as object instances, agents, and regions, with free-form text-based queries.

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eGEN: an energy-saving modeling language and code generator for location-sensing of mobile apps

eGEN: an energy-saving modeling language and code generator for location-sensing of mobile apps

Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Marimuthu Chinnakali, Chandrasekaran Kalicheti, Sridhar Chimalakonda
ESEC/FSE, 2022

A tool to specify energy-aware self-adaptive location-sensing strategies helping developers write battery-aware code for mobile apps.

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RepoQuester: A Tool Towards Evaluating GitHub Projects

RepoQuester: A Tool Towards Evaluating GitHub Projects

Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Meiyappan Nagappan, Sridhar Chimalakonda, Nuthan Munaiah
ICSME, 2022

A command-line tool to assist developers in evaluating projects by providing quantitative scores for ten metrics that span project collaboration, quality and maintenance.

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GitQ-towards using badges as visual cues for GitHub projects

GitQ-towards using badges as visual cues for GitHub projects

Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Sridhar Chimalakonda
ICPC, 2022

A Chrome plugin to augment GitHub with badges that deliver visual cues quantifying the project's architecture and maintenance.

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A Platform for Large Scale Auto Annotation of Scanned Documents Featuring Real-Time Model Building and Model Pooling

A Platform for Large Scale Auto Annotation of Scanned Documents Featuring Real-Time Model Building and Model Pooling

Prashanth Komuravelli, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Vijay Chilaka, Teja Dande, Vidya Rodge, Ramya Velaga, Reena Abasaheb Deshmukh, Kalidas Yeturu
CVIP, 2021

We report here a platform and a model building algorithm that does auto-annotation of documents by building models in real-time.

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