Maya Guru

I'm a predoctoral researcher with the PRIOR team at the Allen institute for AI (AI2) in Seattle, WA.

Previously, I was receiving my BSE in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania along with my MS in robotics at the GRASP Lab. After graduating, I joined the RAI Institute as a software engineer, working in various areas spanning embedded software, manipulation, and perception.

My research interests include scaling up robotic manipulation capabilities, with particular emphasis on whole-body manipulation and contact-rich tasks. My research aims to improve robot generalization, robustness, and adaptability by leveraging data-driven approaches that enable robots to perform effectively in new and unseen environments.

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News

July 2025 I joined AI2's PRIOR team as a predoctoral researcher.
July 2023 I started a full time position at the Robotics and AI Institute.
May 2023 I completed my Bachelor's of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Computer Science and Master's of Science (MS) in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications

Jacta: A Versatile Planner for Learning Dexterous and Whole-body Manipulation
Jan BrĂ¼digam, Ali-Adeeb Abbas, Maks Sorokin, Kuan Fang, Brandon Hung, Maya Guru, Stefan Sosnowski, Jiuguang Wang, Sandra Hirche, Simon Le Cleac'h
CoRL, 2024
project page / arXiv

A motion planner for dexterous and whole-body manipulation that can be used to generate data across multiple embodiments, enabling efficient Sim2Real RL for complex manipulation tasks.


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