Kowndinya Boyalakuntla

Graduate Student Researcher

A portrait of Keunhong Park

kowndinya2000.github.io

kowndinya2000

KowndinyaB70872

kb1204@rutgers.edu

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Ph.D. in Computer Science, advised by Jingjin Yu
Fall 2024 - Spring 2029
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
MS in Computer Science, advised by Abdeslam Boularias
Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, advised by Sridhar Chimalakonda and Kalidas Yeturu
Fall 2017 - Spring 2021

Experience

Robot Learning Lab, Rutgers University
Graduate Student Researcher
Jan 2023 - May 2024
New Brunswick, NJ
RISHA Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
Undergraduate Researcher
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Tirupati, India
University of Waterloo
Visiting Scholar
July 2020 - Sep 2020
Waterloo, Canada
Google Developer Student Clubs
Lead
Feb 2019 - July 2020
Tirupati, India

Publications

DAP: Diffusion-based Affordance Prediction for Multi-modality Storage
H. Chang, K. Boyalakuntla, Y. Liu, X. Zhang, L. Schramm, A. Boularias
A computationally efficient approach to storing objects in multimodal containers.
IROS, 2024
LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement
H. Chang, K. Gao, K. Boyalakuntla, A. Lee, B. Huang, H. Kumar, J. Yu, A. Boularias
A novel framework to the executable complex geometric rearrangement problem.
IROS, 2024
Context-Aware Entity Grounding with Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs
H. Chang, K. Boyalakuntla, S. Lu, S. Cai, E. Jing, S. Keskar, S. Geng, A. Abbas, L. Zhou, K. Bekris, A. Boularias
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.
CoRL, 2023
eGEN: an energy-saving modeling language and code generator for location-sensing of mobile apps
K. Boyalakuntla, M. Chinnakali, C. Kalicheti, S. Chimalakonda
A tool to specify energy-aware self-adaptive location-sensing strategies helping developers write battery-aware code for mobile apps.
ESEC/FSE, 2022
RepoQuester: A Tool Towards Evaluating GitHub Projects
K. Boyalakuntla, M. Nagappan, S. Chimalakonda, N. Munaiah
A command-line tool to assist developers in evaluating projects by providing quantitative scores for ten metrics that span project collaboration, quality and maintenance.
ICSME, 2022
GitQ-towards using badges as visual cues for GitHub projects
A. Venigalla, K. Boyalakuntla, S. Chimalakonda
A Chrome plugin to augment GitHub with badges that deliver visual cues quantifying the project's architecture and maintenance.
ICPC, 2022
A Platform for Large Scale Auto Annotation of Scanned Documents Featuring Real-Time Model Building and Model Pooling
P. Komuravelli, K. Boyalakuntla, V. Chilaka, T. Dande, V. Rodge, R. Velaga, R. Deshmukh, K. Yeturu
We report here a platform and a model building algorithm that does auto-annotation of documents by building models in real-time.
CVIP, 2021