
Nikhil (Nik) Sridhar
I am a member of technical staff at Skild AI where I will focus on building robotics foundation models for cross-embodiment learning. Previously, I did my Masters at the University of Michigan studying computer science and theoretical math. I have been advised by Dr. Elena Shrestha, Prof. JJ Park, Prof. Nima Fazeli, and Prof. Dorsa Sadigh.
I am broadly interested in (1) leveraging affordances as priors to accelerate learning (2) developing skill-based RL algorithms for continual learning and (3) building physics-consistent world models.
Research & Publications

This&That: Language-Gesture Controlled Video Generation for Robot Planning
Boyang Wang, Nikhil Sridhar, Chao Feng, Mark Van der Merwe, Adam Fishman, Nima Fazeli, Jeong Joon Park
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.
Paper · Website · GitHub · HuggingFace

optHIM: Hybrid Iterative Methods for Continuous Optimization in PyTorch
Nikhil Sridhar and Sajiv Shah