Haritheja Etukuru

Haritheja Etukuru is a first-year CS PhD student at UC Berkeley, advised by Jitendra Malik, and a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He previously completed his undergraduate studies at NYU, where he was advised by Lerrel Pinto and Soumith Chintala. His research focuses on developing robotic systems capable of robustly operating in the real world, with recent work on few-shot and zero-shot imitation learning, including Robot Utility Models for zero-shot deployment in novel environments.