"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently"

β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

About Me


Hi! I am Md Faizal Karim.

I am an incoming CS PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and I'll be working with Prof. Krishna Murthy in Sci-Phy Lab.

Previously, I was a CS dual-degree student at IIIT Hyderabad and completed my thesis on "Dual-arm Grasping" supervised by Prof. K Madhava Krishna.

Outside research, I spend my time reading (do check out my reading list here), playing open-world games and attending every major concert I can!

Education


Publications


Project GIF
May, 2026 Object Pose and Shape Estimation for Grasping: Does it Work? (Under review)
Pavan Karke, Kushal Shah, Gaurav Singh, Md Faizal Karim, K Madhava Krishna, Rajat Talak
Project GIF
Sep, 2025 DAGDiff: Guiding Dual-Arm Grasp Diffusion to Stable and Collision-Free Grasps (ICRA 2026, Vienna)
Md Faizal Karim, Vignesh Vembar, Keshab Patra, Gaurav Singh, K Madhava Krishna
Project GIF
Mar, 2025 DG16M: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dual-Arm Grasping with Force-Optimized Grasps (IROS 2025, Hangzhou)
Md Faizal Karim, Mohammed Saad Hashmi, Shreya Bollimuntha, Mahesh Reddy Tapeti, Gaurav Singh, Nagamanikandan Govindan, K Madhava Krishna
Project GIF
Sept, 2024 DA-VIL: Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning and Variable Impedance Control (ICRA 2025, Atlanta)
Md Faizal Karim, Shreya Bollimuntha, Mohammed Saad Hashmi, Autrio Das, Gaurav Singh, Srinath Sridhar, Arun Kumar Singh, Nagamanikandan Govindan, K Madhava Krishna
Project GIF
Mar, 2024 Constrained 6-DoF Grasp Generation on Complex Shapes for Improved Dual-Arm Manipulation (IROS 2024, Abu Dhabi)
Gaurav Singh, Sanket Kalwar, Md Faizal Karim, Bipasha Sen, Nagamanikandan Govindan, Srinath Sridhar, K Madhava Krishna
Project GIF
Oct, 2022 Investigation of English to Hindi Multimodal Neural Machine Translation using Transliteration-based Phrase Pairs Augmentation (WAT 2022, South Korea)
Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Rahul Singh, Md Faizal Karim, Riyanka Manna, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

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