Cloth Folding with Diffusion Policies
Collected teleop demos and trained diffusion‑policy agents for multi‑step cloth folding. Built evaluation harness and sim‑to‑real checks.
Hi, I'm Sanjay Pokkali. Welcome!
Robotics & AI · MCS @ UIUC
I am a masters student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) studying Computer Science. My interests are in robotics, reinforcement learning and computer vision.
During the summer of 2025 I interned at Slip Robotics as a robotics intern where I worked on a pick and place task for warehouse automation. Before my masters I was a full stack software engineer at Cleo Communications for 3 years.
At UIUC I am doing robotics research with Yunzhu Li and Lana Lazebnik. I am currently working on simulating deformable objects for robotics and doing research in real2sim pipelines for evaluating robotics policies.
I'm currently looking for Spring internships or full-time roles in robotics & robot learning so if you are hiring please reach out!
Feel free to connect with me by email (sanjay.pokkali99 at gmail dot com) or through any of the links below!
Projects
AutoSummon
Developed an end-to-end pipeline to equip the GEM e2 vehicle with autonomous lane following and navigation capabilities to reach a user’s GNSS location.
