I am a research scientist engineer at the University of Washington, Seattle, advised by Natasha Jaques. I work on human-AI and human-robot collaboration using reinforcement learning.
Previously, I was a graduate student researcher with the NASAxUW academic research project.
In the past, I devoted a year to a medical technology startup. During this time, I engaged in extensive research and played a pivotal role in the creation of two refined prototypes meticulously designed for the purpose of monitoring one's health on a periodic basis.
Before that, I earned my bachelor's degree from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. During this time I was part of the prestigious Robocon team that won many awards and represented India at the national and international level.
Interests:
Human-AI/Robot Collaboration
Multi-Agent
Game Theory
Hardware/Software Robot Systems
Embodied AI
Michael Li*, Paresh Chaudhary*, Sumedh Sontakke, Abhishek Gupta, Natasha Jaques. Curriculum Learning for Robust Robotic Manipulation in Clutter. The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026 In preparation)
Paresh Chaudhary, Yancheng Liang, Daphne Chen, Simon S. Du, Natasha Jaques. Improving Human-AI Coordination through Online Adversarial Training and Generative Models (NeurIPS 2025 submitted) (Paper, Website)
Anthony Chae, Ian Yi-Heng Liu, Kevin O. Ibarra, Marc Hernandez, Paresh R. Chaudhary, Zhiwei Zhong, Zihe Guo (2023) Machine Learning for Smart Space-Based Radiation and X-Ray Spectrometer Instruments (Poster) (Ordered alphabetically) Sponsor: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paresh Chaudhary, Ninad V Joshi, Rohan Paranjape, Parul Jadhav (2021) An Efficient System to Quantify Error in Sensor Fusion for Cameras in ADAS.
* equal contribution
Team Captain: Led the college team to victory at the National Robocon event and headed the Indian team at the International Robocon 2020 in Suva, Fiji.
National Runner Up, ABU Robocon 2018 (Rank 2 out of 105)
Integral Team Member: Designed and implemented motion control for Omni/Meccnum holonomic drives and developed closed-loop DC/BLDC motor drivers.
Semi-Finalist Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge 2019 (TOP 1%)
Group Lead: Ideated, designed, and implemented an electric mobility vehicle. Received a small grant from Texas Instruments and MITWPU to develop the idea.
Awarded the SSC Scholarship in academics for SSC Board Examination 2015
@UW
@Robocon
Teaching Assistant: Linear Systems Theory (EE547), Spring 2024
Teaching Assistant: The Self-Driving Car: Introduction to Mobile Robots (EE545), Fall 2023
Workshop Organizer: Build, program and run your own robot, Spring 2018