Sattwik Kumar Sahu

MS Student, IISER Bhopal

I am an EECS student at IISER Bhopal working on robot learning and multimodal foundation models. My research focuses on robustness, adaptation, and deploying embodied AI systems in real-world settings.

:star_struck: Research Interests

  • Multimodal Foundation Models
  • Embodied Intelligence
  • Self-Supervised Learning
  • World Models
  • Off-Road Navigation
  • Human-in-the-Loop Systems

:page_facing_up: Publications

Mars-JEPA: Multispectral Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures for Martian Landslide Segmentation

Sattwik Kumar Sahu, Aditya Sinha, Sujit P. B.

British Machine Vision Conference, Lancaster, UK (2026) [Accepted]

OpenReview Paper Code

  • Proposed a novel masking strategy to train a JEPA encoder on multispectral satellite images
  • Trained several segmentation heads on top of the encoder backbone for downstream detection tasks
  • Comparison reveals efficiency of our encoder in capturing cross-spectral correlations

AnyTraverse: Off-Road Traversability with VLM and Human-in-the-Loop

Sattwik Sahu, Agamdeep Singh, Karthik Nambiar, Srikanth Saripalli, P.B. Sujit

19th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2025)

arXiv PyPI Version Code

:test_tube: Research Projects

PUMA: Predictive Uncertainty Maximizing Actions for Active World Model Learning

May 2026 - Present

  • A framework for autonomous curiosity-maximising exploration to train world models without expert data collection
  • Maximizing epistemic uncertainty (proxy for curiosity) during planning leads to collection of diverse and more meaningful interactions

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Multimodal Models for Robot Learning

Dec 2024 – Present

  • Language-goal-conditioned ACT models
  • Vision-Language-Action systems
  • Self-supervised goal-conditioned EBMs
  • Deployment on real robotic platforms

Startup

Protomate AI — Co-Founder & CTO

May 2024 – Present

  • ManoMitra: Multilingual mental health AI
  • LibSearcher: AI recommendation engine for IISERB library
  • IIT Jodhpur backed startup

:mortar_board: Education

BS-MS in EECS

  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
  • CPI: 9.22/10.0 :1st_place_medal: Gold Medallist

:medal_sports: Honors

  • Proficiency Gold Medal for Best Academic Performance in EECS (26 Batch) – IISER Bhopal
  • Top 19/1500 — ISRO Robotics Challenge 2024
  • Gold Medal — iGEM Jamboree 2023 (Paris)
  • Second Runner-Up (Asia-Pacific Region) – IEEE CASS Student Design Competition
  • MITACS Globalink Summer Internship Select

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