Alap Kshirsagar
Hello Fellow-traveller-on-this-spaceship-Earth,
Thank you for visiting my webpage!
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group led by Prof. Jan Peters at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. My research interests include Human-Robot Interaction, Robotic Manipulation, and Robot Learning.
I am currently part of The Adaptive Mind research cluster, which brings together scientists from Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence to understand how the human mind adapts to changing conditions, and what happens when these adaptive processes fail.
I completed my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, USA, where I was part of the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab led by Dr. Guy Hoffman. Before my Ph.D., I completed a Master's in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay. I have been a visiting student researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.