
Nikhil (Nik) Sridhar​
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​I am a member of technical staff at Skild AI where I will focus on building robotics foundation models for cross-embodiment learning. Previously, I did my Masters at the University of Michigan studying computer science and theoretical math. I have been advised by Dr. Elena Shrestha, Prof. JJ Park, Prof. Nima Fazeli, and Prof. Dorsa Sadigh.
I am broadly interested in (1) leveraging affordances as priors to accelerate learning (2) developing skill-based RL algorithms for continual learning and (3) building physics-consistent world models.
Research & Publications

​​This&That: Language-Gesture Controlled Video Generation for Robot Planning​​​​
Boyang Wang, Nikhil Sridhar, Chao Feng, Mark Van der Merwe, Adam Fishman, Nima Fazeli, Jeong Joon Park​​​​
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.
Paper · Website · GitHub · HuggingFace

optHIM: Hybrid Iterative Methods for Continuous Optimization in PyTorch
Nikhil Sridhar and Sajiv Shah​