Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Pushyami Kaveti

Postdoctoral Fellow at MBARI working on multi-camera perception, 3D reconstruction, SLAM, and robotics in underwater and polar environments.

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NameDr. Pushyami Kaveti
RolePostdoctoral Fellow
InstitutionMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Professional Summary

My research focuses on multi-camera perception, 3D reconstruction, and simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic and visually degraded environments spanning urban, marine, and polar regions.

Experience

2025 - Present

Moss Landing, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

  • Multi-modal representation learning for underwater navigation and mapping using optical and acoustic sensing for AUVs and ROVs.
  • Self-supervised learning for object detection, scene understanding, and semantic mapping.
  • 3D Gaussian splatting adaptations for real-time, large-scale dense mapping.
2024

Trondheim, Norway

Visiting Researcher

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

  • Enhanced situational awareness for autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles via multi-camera perception and sensor fusion.
  • Real-time dense reconstruction of underwater scenes including subsea infrastructure and shipwrecks.
2022 - 2025

Boston, MA

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Experiential Robotics, Northeastern University

  • Toyota Research Institute collaboration on multi-modal SLAM and multi-camera plus inertial sensing.
  • Information-theoretic sensor arrangement for accurate and robust SLAM.
  • 3D mapping of actively calving glaciers using ASV-collected multi-sensor data in Svalbard.
2016 - 2022

Boston, MA

Graduate Research Assistant

Northeastern University Field Robotics Laboratory

  • PhD research on robust real-time robot perception with multi-camera systems.
  • Designed hardware and software stacks for synchronized multi-camera capture.
  • Applied deep learning to underwater and IR imagery for detection and registration.
2018

Cambridge, MA

Research Intern

Toyota Research Institute

  • Built methods for driver interruptibility and intelligent speech-based ADAS interfaces.

Education

2016 - 2022

Boston, MA

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Robotics)

Northeastern University

Thesis: Multi-Camera Sensing for Robust Perception in Robotics

  • Committee: Hanumant Singh, John Leonard, Ryan Eustice, Chris Amato, Lawson Wong.
2012 - 2014

Gainesville, FL

M.S. in Computer Engineering

University of Florida

2007 - 2011

Anantapur, India

B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Selected Publications

2025

A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Generalized Robot-World and Hand-Eye Calibration

Wise, E., Kaveti, P., Chen, Q., Wang, W., Singh, H., Kelly, J., Rosen, D. M., & Giamou, M.

The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2025

2025

Enhancing Situational Awareness in Underwater Robotics with Multi-modal Spatial Perception

Kaveti, P., Waldum, A. G., Singh, H., & Ludvigsen, M.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06476, ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics, 2025

2024

Considerations for Advancing Seafloor Imaging to Enable Long-term Monitoring

Preston, V., Kaveti, P., Giaya, D., Gupta, A., Lubetkin, M., Shank, T., Singh, H., & Fornari, D.

Journal of Ocean Technology, 2024

2024

Towards Long Term SLAM on Thermal Imagery

Keil, C., Gupta, A., Kaveti, P., & Singh, H.

IROS, 2024

2024

OASIS: Optimal Arrangements for Sensing in SLAM

Kaveti, P., Giamou, M., Singh, H., & Rosen, D. M.

ICRA, 2024

2024

Bridging the Domain Gap between Synthetic and Real-World Data for Autonomous Driving

Bai, X., Luo, Y., Jiang, L., Gupta, A., Kaveti, P., Singh, H., & Ostadabbas, S.

ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, 2024

Presentations

  • AID Workshop — 3D Vision for Underwater Robot Perception in the Context of AUV Operations (January 2025)
  • WHOI AOPE Seminar — Robust Perception for Field Robotics in Extreme Unstructured Environments (October 2024)
  • MIT Robust Robotics Group — Towards Robust Perception in Robotics (November 2022)
  • New England Robotics Colloquium — High-resolution 3D Mapping of Sea-Terminating Glaciers Using Autonomous Surface Vehicle (November 2023)
  • NU-NTNU Joint Seminar — Multi-camera Sensing for SLAM (March 2022)

Open Source and Data

  • Spinnaker Camera Driver — ROS driver for FLIR cameras with hardware synchronization support.
  • MultiCamSLAM — Generic multi-camera SLAM system for arbitrary camera configurations.
  • Optimal Camera Placement — Information-theoretic optimization for camera arrangement on mobile robots.
  • Rosbag Toolkit — Read/write, conversion, downsampling, filtering, and visualization of rosbags.
  • NUFR-M3F — Multi-modal SLAM dataset with cameras, IMU, and lidar across multiple floors.

Field Deployments

  • ROV Survey of Whale Bones — Utqiagvik, Alaska (August 2025)
  • Sea Ice Survey from USCGC Healy — Chukchi Sea, Alaska (October 2024)
  • ROV Minerva Deployment at NTNU — Trondheim, Norway (June 2024)
  • High-resolution Mapping of the Glacier Front — Ny Alesund, Svalbard (September 2023)
  • Sensor Platform Design for Antarctic Sea-ice Study — Rothera Research Station, Antarctica (December 2022)