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[00] about

Dasari Raj Vamsi

I'm an Integrated B.Tech + M.Tech student at ABV-IIITM Gwalior and a research intern at the University of Virginia. I work on making autonomous systems behave safely in situations they weren't trained for, mostly by combining learning-based control with control barrier functions and testing it in simulation.

Now
Research intern, University of Virginia
Thesis
Real2Sim trajectory style transfer in CARLA
Interests
Safe control, imitation learning, autonomous driving
Looking for
PhD positions, Fall 2027

[01] research

  1. Research Intern, University of VirginiaMay 2026 - now

    Neural integral control barrier functions for unknown nonlinear systems · code

    • +Implemented the full safety filter: Neural ODE dynamics, an imitation-learned policy, learned barriers and a QP with input constraints.
    • +Forward-invariance-aware labeling cut closed-loop input-constraint violations from 0.80% to 0.00%.
    • +On an F1TENTH racing model, reduced crashes on held-out tracks from 12/200 to 0/200.
  2. M.Tech Thesis, ABV-IIITM GwaliorDec 2025 - now

    Real2Sim trajectory style transfer in CARLA, advised by Dr. Rahul Kala · code

    • +Mapped real Gwalior traffic into CARLA Town10HD and curated 5,212 scenarios across 6 maneuvers.
    • +Cut replay tracking error from 5.9 m to under 0.3 m with time-synchronized PID and road-aligned spawns.
  3. Research Intern, iHub-Data, IIIT HyderabadDec 2024 - Nov 2025

    Safety-aware synthetic scenario generation for Indian traffic

    • +Built spawn correction and TTC-based collision avoidance for real-to-sim scenes in CARLA.
    • +Trained a SegFormer-B1 behavior cloning model on ~66,000 image-command pairs.

[03] publications

  • While in London do as the Gwaliorites do: Style Transfer of Trajectories across Traffic Domains in Real-to-Sim

    Under review, WAFR 2026

  • GLAD-LAD: Gwalior LAneless Driving Large Altitude Dataset

    Under review, Transportation Research Part C

[04] education

ABV-IIITM Gwalior2022 - 2027

Integrated B.Tech + M.Tech, Information Technology. CGPA 8.73/10.

  • 2025Best B.Tech project of the year
  • 2025GATE Computer Science, AIR 2000 (top 1%)
  • 2022JEE Main, 99th percentile

[05] contact

Happy to talk about research.

dasarirajvamsi@gmail.com · Research statement