Cloth Folding with Diffusion Policies
Collected demos and trained diffusion‑policies for cloth folding tasks. Currently working on Real2sim pipelines for policy evaluation.
Hi, I'm Sanjay Pokkali. Welcome!
Robotics & AI · MCS @ UIUC
I am recent graduate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where I got my masters in computer science. My interests lie 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 was doing robotics research with Yunzhu Li and Lana Lazebnik. There I was working on simulating deformable objects for robotics and doing research in real2sim pipelines for evaluating robotics policies.
I'm currently looking for full-time roles in robotics (robotics swe or 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 and Publications
Manipulation with Visual Servoing
Wrote a custom LeRobot SDK to control and move SO101 arm using IK and FK solvers. Implemented visual servoing for object pick and place tasks.
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.
