Kowndinya Boyalakuntla

I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rutgers University, advised by Prof. Abdeslam Boularias.

I have nearly 4 years of research experience in robot learning and planning, spanning 3D scene understanding, object rearrangement, dynamic manipulation, and model-based reinforcement learning for humanoid locomotion. I have published at CoRL and IROS.

My current research explores action abstractions from human motion capture for planning with learned world models toward robust humanoid loco-manipulation. I also study Q-guided planning for vision-language-action (VLA) policies.