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Adidev Jhunjhunwala

I'm a researcher in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, where I'm advised by Prof. Hod Lipson. I work on the wackier corners of AI and robot learning — how a machine builds, keeps and revises an internal picture of its own body as it learns, among other projects.

My interests run across reinforcement learning, continual and multi-task learning, interpretability and representation analysis, evolved morphology, and machine design. I care most about problems that don't sit inside one field, so if you're working on something at the edge of robotics and AI — or anywhere adjacent that's genuinely interesting — I'd like to hear about it.

SELECTED WORKS

R.01 Robot Self Awareness What, exactly, stays the same when a robot learns to do something new? Trained one policy across walk, wiggle and bob, then looked inside for a persistent self-like subnetwork. arXiv ↗

R.02 N-Dimensional Evolved Soft Robots Evolving soft-bodied robots in more than three spatial dimensions, and asking what locomotion means once the body has more room to move than the world does. YouTube ↗

E.01 GorrillaBot A bipedal robot with a servo-actuated hinge that became a quadruped in the last two days, when we realised grading was based purely on speed.

EDUCATION

Columbia University

BS — May 2026 · Integrated MS — Dec 2026

Dean's List (all semesters) · Tau Beta Pi · cum laude

New York, NY

Claremont McKenna

BA — May 2024

Murty Sunak Quantitative Computing · Associated Students of CMC · Research Analyst, Financial Economics Institute

Claremont, CA

Mallya Aditi International School

5th highest national score in Indian Central Exams (97.6%) · Captain of the Indian Team, International Youth Physics Tournament

2021
Bangalore, IN

SKILLS

Programming Languages

Robotics & Machine Learning

CAD / CAE

Machining & Fabrication

Data & Product Strategy

Scientific & Math Software

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Python — pandas, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Matplotlib, Stable-Baselines3

R — tidyverse, data.table, ggplot2, caret, mlr3

MATLAB — scripting & Simulink

SQL

Astro

Programming Languages+

Robotics & Machine Learning+

CAD / CAE+

Machining & Fabrication+

Data & Product Strategy+

Scientific & Math Software+

INTERESTS

Poker · Bullet chess · Golf · Hiking · Skiing

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