Ryan Punamiya

About

Hi I'm Ryan! I'm a fourth-year B.S. CS major at Georgia Tech. I am a researcher at the RL2 Lab, advised by Prof. Danfei Xu and the Hoffman Lab, advised by Prof. Judy Hoffman. I am also fortunate to be mentored by Simar Kareer, PhD at Georgia Tech. I am currently interested in studying scalable approaches for task-to-task transfer and generalization in robot learning. Most recently, I have been working on enabling different types of transfer from egocentric human data.

I am currently looking for PhD positions for Fall 2026.

News

Sept 2025 Our work, EgoBridge was accepted to NeurIPS 2025 and was nominated for an Oral presentation at the H2R Workshop at CoRL 2025.

Sept 2025 Received the President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for my research in robotics.

Aug 2025 We publicly released EMMA, our recent endeavour in scaling mobile manipulation through egocentric human video.

Feb 2025 Our work, EgoMimic, was showcased in a Meta AI blog post highlighting its role in embodied AI with Project Aria and Ego4D.

Oct 2024 Our paper, EgoMimic was showcased at the LFDM and X-Embodiment Workshops at CoRL 2024.

Sep 2024 Received the President's Undergraduate Research Award for my research in robotics.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA

B.S in Computer Science Aug. 2022 - Present

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Advisors: Danfei Xu, Judy Hoffman

Publications

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2025

EgoBridge: Domain Adaptation for Generalizable Imitation from Egocentric Human Data

Ryan Punamiya, Dhruv Patel, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Pranav Kuppili, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Simar Kareer*, Judy Hoffman*, Danfei Xu*

NeurIPS 2025, CoRL 2025 H2R Workshop (Oral)

Paper Website

EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data

Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili*, Ryan Punamiya*, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Dhruv Patel, Simar Kareer, Sehoon Ha, Danfei Xu

Preprint

Paper Website

2024

EgoMimic: Scaling Imitation Learning via Egocentric Video

Simar Kareer, Ryan Punamiya*, Dhruv Patel*, Pranay Mathur*, Shuo Cheng, Chen Wang, Judy Hoffman, Danfei Xu

ICRA 2025

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Projects

Partnr - Intelligent co-pilot for consultants

Overall winner of AI ATL 2023 Hackathon

Website

RoadSense - Embedded system for passive pothole detection in cars

Winner of Georgia Tech Grand Challenges Grant ($700)