Abhishek Cauligi

Hi! I’m an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, starting in the summer of 2025. My research focuses on developing safe and computationally efficient decision making algorithms for robotic systems, with a particular focus on studying how machine learning can be combined with model-based planning and optimal control techniques.

Prior to this, I was a Robotics Technologist with the Robotic Surface Mobility Group (347F) at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and received my PhD. in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University as a member of the Autonomous Systems Lab.