Yash Kakade

Hey! I’m Yash, a third-year undergrad at Caltech studying Electrical Engineering with a focus on Intelligent Systems. I’m advised by Prof. Babak Hassibi.

Broadly, I’m interested in embodied intelligence at the intersection of hardware, perception, and learning-based control. My work spans robotics, computer vision, motion capture, and reinforcement learning, with a strong emphasis on real-world deployment. At Caltech, I work on humanoid locomotion using reinforcement learning in the AMBER Lab. In parallel, I conduct perception and robotics research with Relativity Space, focusing on high-precision sensing, motion capture, and digital twin systems for aerospace applications.

I’ve previously worked as a robotics and computer vision intern at AFRL developing ROS2-enabled digital twins and perception systems for autonomous robots, as well as a Robotics Software Engineering Intern at Relativity Space, and briefly conducted machine learning research in the Wierman Group at Caltech on adversarial robustness in CNN-based perception.