Portrait of Hritam Basak

Applied Scientist II

Amazon Robotics

h...8@gmail.com

Embodied AI · 3D Vision · Robotics

Teaching robots to see, reason, and act in the real world.

I am an Applied Scientist II at Amazon Robotics, working on humanoid manipulation and whole-body control, and collaborating with the Fauna Robotics group on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) pose-training.

My research spans 3D Vision & Robotics, Vision-Language-Action models, Generative AI, and Multimodal Learning (Vision + X), with applications reaching into Medical Image Analysis .

I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Zhaozheng Yin, after two summers at Amazon solving perception and manipulation problems in embodied AI. Earlier, I was a Data Scientist at Tata Digital and earned my B.E. from Jadavpur University.

VLA Models Manipulation Diffusion Models 3D Generation Domain Adaptation

20+

Publications

CVPR · ECCV

NeurIPS · MICCAI

9+

Awards & Grants

3

Continents of Research

Recent Updates

  • [June 2026] Started as a full-time Applied Scientist II at Amazon Robotics, working on humanoid manipulation and whole-body control!
  • [June 2026] Two papers accepted at ECCV 2026 — "Exo2EgoPolicy" (pose-aligned cross-view policy learning) and "Fixed Reality, Diffused Possibility" (cluttered grasping)!
  • [June 2026] Our "PhysioSplat" paper on physics-informed dynamic Gaussian Splatting was accepted to MICCAI 2026!
  • [Jan 2026] Successfully defended and completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stony Brook University!
  • [Sep 2025] Honored to receive the ICCV/CVF Travel Grant and the IEEE RAS Travel Award for IROS 2025.
  • [June 2025] Our "ViSPLA" paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
  • [June 2025] Our "D4Recon" paper was accepted to MICCAI 2025 and our Gaussian Splatting work to IROS 2025!
  • [May 2025] Back at Amazon for a second research internship on VLA models and manipulation.
  • [Feb 2025] Two papers, "SemiDAViL" and "UA-Pose," were accepted at CVPR 2025!
  • [Nov 2024] Received the IEEE SPS Scholarship for the second consecutive year.
  • [Sep 2024] Thrilled to receive the MICCAI NIH Travel Award and the ECCV DEI Award.
  • [July 2024] Our paper "Forget More to Learn More" was accepted at ECCV 2024.
  • [June 2024] Our "Quest for Clone" paper was accepted at MICCAI 2024.

Selected Publications

Let's build together

Always open to collaboration

Whether it's robotics & manipulation, vision-language-action models, generative AI, or medical imaging — if you have an exciting idea or want to chat about research, I'd love to hear from you. Reach out anytime.

Academic Services

Conference Reviewing

  • CVPR ('24, '25)
  • MICCAI ('23, '24, '25)
  • ECCV ('24)
  • ICCV ('25)
  • IJCAI, AAAI ('23, '24, '25)

Journal Reviewing

  • IEEE TPAMI, TNNLS, TIP, TCSVT, TMI
  • Elsevier MedIA, Pattern Recognition
  • Nature
  • Intl. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)