Lakshita Dodeja

Hi! I am Lakshita, a third year PhD student at Brown University where I am advised by Prof. Stefanie Tellex and also work with Prof. George Konidaris. Currently, I am interning at the Robotics and AI Institute working on improving IL policies for robot manipulation using RL with Thomas Weng and Karl Schmeckpeper. I am interested in developing sample-efficient methods for on-robot reinforcement learning.

Previously, I completed my Master's in Computer Science at Georgia Tech where I worked in the CORE Robotics Lab advised by Prof. Matthew Gombolay.

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Publications

Accelerating Residual Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty Estimation
Lakshita Dodeja, Karl Schmeckpeper, Shivam Vats, Thomas Weng, Mingxi Jia, George Konidaris and Stefanie Tellex.

In Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
Also, in Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics Workshop @ RSS'25

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Towards the design of user-centric strategy recommendation systems for collaborative Human–AI tasks
Lakshita Dodeja*, Pradyumna Tambwekar*, Erin Hedlund-Botti, and Matthew Gombolay.

In International Journal of Human Computer-Studies (IJHCS), 2024

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A Computational Interface to Translate Strategic Intent from Unstructured Language in a Low-Data Setting
Pradyumna Tambwekar, Lakshita Dodeja, Nathan Vaska, Wei Xu, Matthew Gombolay.

In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023

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Hybrid color image watermarking algorithm based on DSWT-DCT-SVD and Arnold transform
Palak Garg, Lakshita Dodeja, Priyanka, Mayank Dave.

In Springer Link : Advances in Signal Processing and Communication

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Research/Work Experience
Robotics and AI Institute
Reseach Intern, Sept'25 - present
Working with Thomas Weng and Karl Schmeckpeper
Brown University
PhD in Computer Science, Aug'23 - present
Adviced by Prof Stefanie Tellex, GPA : 4/4
Graduate Researcher, Humans to Robots Lab, Aug'23 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology
Masters in Computer Science, Aug'21 - May'23
Specialising in Computational Perception and Robotics, GPA : 4/4
Graduate Researcher, CORE Robotics Lab, Aug'21 - Aug'23
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Robot Intelligence Planning, Jan'22 - May'22
Amazon Development Center
Software Development Engineer II, June'18 - July'21
Software Development Intern, May'17- Aug'17
Worked in the Amazon Prime Verifiacation Team.
National Insitute of Technology, Kurukshetra
Bachelors in Computer Science, Aug'14 - May'18
Graduated as one of the top 10 students in the department, GPA : 9.35/10
Undergraduate Researcher with Dr Mayank Dave on Networks and Security