Adithya Murali
adithya_murali@berkeley.edu | adithyamurali.com
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
UC BERKELEY
BERKELEY AUTOMATION SCIENCES LAB + ROBOT LEARNING
LAB | Research Assistant
B.S. (Honors) in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences
Expected Spring 2016 | Berkeley, CA
College of Engineering
Cum. GPA: 3.81 / 4.0
RAFFLES INSTITUTION
Grad. Dec 2011| Singapore
LINKS
Github
github.com/adithyamurali
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/adithyamurali
Wordpress
scienceqed.wordpress.com
COURSEWORK
UNDERGRADUATE
Algorithms
Operating Systems
Graphics
Machine Learning
Data Structures
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Structures
Signals & Systems
Microelectronic Circuits
SKILLS
PROGRAMMING
Core:
Python • C++ • C • Java
Familiar:
SQL • HTML5 • CSS
Libraries/APIs:
Caffe • Apache Spark • Robot Operating
System (ROS) • OpenGL • JHU-CISST
OpenCV • Scikitlearn
Others:
git • EC2 • Ubuntu • OSX • iOS
Eclipse • Qt • vim • CMake
Jan 2014 – present | Berkeley, CA
• Built the software pipeline and developed a Learning by Observation (LBO)
algorithmic framework for the autonomous execution of two benchmark
surgical subtasks using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) surgical robot
• Presented first-author paper at International Conference on Robotics &
Automation (ICRA) 2015; the work was a Best Medical Robotics Paper
finalist; Best Poster at ”Shared Frameworks for Medical Robotics” workshop
• Mentored by Prof Ken Goldberg & Prof Pieter Abbeel
• Research work featured in The New York Times - ”New Research Center
Aims to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots”, Oct 23, 2014
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT. UC BERKELEY | Lab Assistant
Spring 2015 | Berkeley, CA
• Tutored students in lab for Data Structures (CS61B) class
LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB | Research Assistant
Summer 2013 | Berkeley, CA
• Worked on the expitaxial lift-off of thin film solar cells. Advised by Prof Ali
Javey and Dr. Corsin Battaglia.
TAU BETA PI, CA-ALPHA | Officer, Industrial Relations
Fall 2013 | Berkeley, CA
• Coordinated tech-talks, information sessions and career fairs for companies
to network with Berkeley Engineering students.
PUBLICATIONS
• Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks: Multilateral Cutting of
3D Viscoelastic and 2D Orthotropic Tissue Phantoms
Adithyavairavan Murali, Siddarth Sen, Ben Kehoe, Animesh Garg, Seth
McFarland, Sachin Patil, W. Douglas Boyd, Susan Lim, Pieter Abbeel, Ken
Goldberg | ICRA, May 2015.
• A Disposable Haptic Palpation Probe for Locating Subcutaneous
Blood Vessels in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Stephen McKinley, Animesh Garg, Siddarth Sen, Rishi Kapadia,
Adithyavairavan Murali, Kirk Nichols, Susan Lim, Sachin Patil, Pieter
Abbeel, Allison Okamura Ken Goldberg | CASE, August 2015 (To Appear).
HONORS & AWARDS
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2010
ICRA 2015
UC Berkeley
DAAD, Germany
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Top Freshman GPA
Top 12 percent
Raffles Institution
Top 10
Awarded Travel Grant to present paper at ICRA
The Leadership Award and Scholarship
Offered scholarship to research at Max-Plank Institute
The Leadership Award and Scholarship
Lipson Essay Prize
Edward Kraft Award
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
All-rounded excellence Award
Finalist at Research Science Institute- MIT, MA