Ishayu S. Shikhare

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

I develop robust, adaptive robotic control policies for dynamic and out-of-distribution environments.

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, where I helped develop few-shot domain adaptation for humanoid locomotion and whole-body tracking. Before joining LeCAR, I conducted was at The AirLab under Prof. Sebastian Scherer working on uncertainty and semantics-aware navigation for quadrotors operating 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.