The Chandra Robot Δutonomy Lab, or CRΔL, is led by Professor Rohan Chandra.

CRΔL solves autonomy and mobility problems to deploy robots in real world human environments.

CRΔL    CRΔL    rohanchandra@virginia.edu

May 2026  Prof. Chandra will serve as Area Chair for CoRL 2026.
Apr 2026  Safe ICRL paper accepted to ICML 2026.
Apr 2026  Prof. Chandra received the Washington Academy of Sciences 2026 Early Career award in Engineering and Computer Science.
Mar 2026  SMG Survey paper accepted to Autonomous Robots 2026.
Mar 2026  Part of UVA's new Physical AI Research Hub (1 of 12 hubs selected out of over 90 proposals).
Mar 2026  Serving as a Mentor at WACV 2026 Doctoral Consortium.
Jan 2026  DAVE: Diverse Atomic Visual Elements Dataset with High Representation of Vulnerable Road Users in Complex and Unpredictable Environments accepted to IV 2026!
Jan 2026  Are LLMs The Way Forward? A Case Study on LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Autonomous Driving accepted to ICRA 2026!
Jan 2026  Reward Is Enough: LLMs are In-context Reinforcement Learners accepted to ICLR 2026!
Jan 2026  A CCI equipment grant was awarded to CRΔL!
Jan 2026  Himesh won a $2,000 Ingrassia Family Research Grant!
Jan 2026  Prof. Chandra is selected to give a talk at the AAAI 2026 New Faculty Highlights program!
Jan 2026  Prof. Chandra will serve as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
Dec 2025  CRΔL thanks NVIDIA for an unrestricted gift through the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program !
Sep 2025  GameChat and GameOpt+ accepted to MRS 2025!
Sep 2025  Two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025, led by SIL!
Aug 2025  A CCI grant was awarded to CRΔL!
Jun 2025  Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Real World Unstructured Pedestrian Crowds accepted to IROS 2025!
Jun 2025  Prof. Chandra will serve as Area Chair for AAAI 2026.
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