Ishayu S. Shikhare

I’m Ishayu Shikhare, an undergraduate studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

I’m curious about how we can enable robots to operate reliably in environments with complex dynamics. I believe adaptation is a promising approach.

Currently, I’m at the LeCAR Lab, advised by Prof. Guanya Shi, where I work on sim-to-real adaptation for world models. My previous project at LeCAR was FADA (CoRL 2026), where I helped develop few-shot domain adaptation for humanoid locomotion and whole-body tracking. Before joining LeCAR, I was at The AirLab under Prof. Sebastian Scherer working on uncertainty and semantics-aware navigation for quadrotors in wildfire environments.

Outside of LeCAR, I lead the reinforcement learning team at Carnegie Mellon Racing, where I work on learning-based control and Real2Sim2Real dynamics modeling for our Formula SAE driverless race car. I’ve also worked on bio-inspired locomotion in the BioRobotics Lab (ICRA 2025) and developed computer vision systems for industrial edge deployment during my internship at Siemens.

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, listening to records, watching films, drinking tea, mountain biking, and occasionally building side projects like RoboDSL.