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Name Sachin Grover
Label Postdoctoral Researcher
Email sachin.grover@asu.edu
Phone (480) 295-2278
Url https://sachingrover211.github.io

Work

  • 2024.10 - 2025.10
    Post-Doctoral Researcher
    Interactive Robotics Lab, Arizona State University
    Working on LLMs as brain for Robotics, where LLMs reason about the semantic information about the task and predict low level policies. Finetuning to harness these capabilities in the smaller models.
    • LLM as Brain
    • LLM finetuning
    • Reinfocement Learning
    • Robotics
  • 2022.08 - 2024.06
    Research Scientist
    PARC, a part of SRI (formerly Xerox PARC)
    Designed a digital twin using LLMs to play the game called Pandemic. Worked on Open-World AI (SAIL-ON), and knowledge management at scale (KMASS) programs from DARPA.
    • LLM Agents
    • Open world AI
    • PDDL Planning
    • Knowledge Representation
  • 2021.05 - 2021.08
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Alexa NLP Team, Amazon
    Incorporate graph based semantic information to improve model accuracy for end-to-end spoken language models in Alexa.
    • Graph Convolutional Networks
    • End-to-End Spoken Language Models
  • 2018.05 - 2018.08
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Alexa NLP Team, Amazon
    Designed post processing techniques for model quantization and compression.
    • Model Compression
    • Size-Accuracy Balance
  • 2016.10 - 2022.07
    Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
    Yochan Lab, Arizona State University
    Worked on Human Aware AI for Active Teaming, where robots and humans are working in the common space. Tested techniques for robot initiated communication to provide feedback and ask questions.
    • Human Aware AI
    • Human Robot Teaming
    • Active Collaboration
    • Robotics
  • 2014.01 - 2018.05
    Research Assistant (M.S.)
    Dragoon Lab, Arizona State University
    Designed tutoring systems for teaching mathematics to K12 student. Modeled student's knowledge to evaluate their learning while interacting with the tutoring system.
    • Human Behavior Modeling
    • Knowledge Tracing
  • 2013.07 - 2010.07
    Web Developer
    Sapient Nitro Inc.
    Developed E-Commerce sites for several brands such as ShopAdidas, Bare Essentials, Proactiv, BeatsbyDre, Moet & Hennessey
    • Demandware Developer
    • Java Developer

Education

  • 2016.01 - 2022.07

    Tempe, AZ

    PhD
    Arizona State University
    Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
    • Automated Task Planning
    • Human Aware AI
  • 2013.08 - 2015.11

    Tempe, AZ

    MS
    Arizona State University
    Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
    • Human Behavior Modeling
    • Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • 2006.08 - 2010.05

    Rourkela, Odisha, India

    BTech
    National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India
    Computer Science
    • Human Behavior Modeling
    • Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Skills

Relevant Programming Languages
Python
JacaScript (React and Dojo)
Java (J2SE, J2EE)
PHP
HTML
CSS
MySQL
Latex
Matlab
R
C
C++
APIs
NumPy
SciPy
Pandas
Scikit-learn
FastAPI
StreamLit
XGBoost
Matplotlib
Pillow
OpenCV
Frameworks
Pytorch (Expert)
HuggingFace (Intermediate)
Tensorflow (Intermediate)
PDDL (Expert)

Languages

Hindi
Native speaker
English
Fluent