Teeratham {TJ} Vitchutripop

Hello! I’m a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia studying computer science + philosophy.

My research revolves around developing machine learning algorithms for robot perception and control grounded within the context of object manipulation tasks and human-robot collaboration.

Currently, I work in the Collaborative Robotics Lab at UVA led by Professor Tariq Iqbal, developing reinforcement learning algorithms that leverage representation learning for human-robot collaboration. Additionally, I perform computer vision research centered around semantic segmentation for manipulation at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute with the Robots Perceiving and Doing (R-PAD) Lab led by Professor David Held.

Aside from my research, I have explored the intersection of policy and science & technology through the UVA-MIT Policy Internship Program, where I interned at the National Science Foundation TIP directorate working on open-sourcing and analyzing data from the first iteration of the NSF Engines program. I also have industry experience in software engineering and test-driven development through an internship with interop.io.