Profile Pic

About Me

Profile Pic

Hi! I am Md Faizal Karim.

I am a 5th year Computer Science and Engineering student studying at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

Currently, I am working as an Undergraduate Researcher at Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad under Professor K Madhava Krishna.

I am interested in Robotics research, particulary in dual-arm manipulation and grasping. Outside research, I spend my time reading non-fiction (do check out my reading list here), playing open-world games and attending every major concert I can.

Education

Publications

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
Paper
Code
Website
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
Paper
Code
Website
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
Paper
Code
Website
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
Paper
Code
Website
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
Paper
Code
Website

Experience

Articles

  1. \(f\)-Divergence - lower bound and its connection to GANs

    Explore the mathematical foundations of \(f\)-Divergence and its pivotal role in shaping the training dynamics of GANs. Unveil how lower bounds drive stability and efficiency in generative modeling.

    July, 2024 GANs Generative Modelling

  1. Maximizing Likelihood is equivalent to minimizing the KL Divergence

    The above statement often comes up in papers involving generative models, and most of the times it is taken for granted. Hence, here is a proof to one of the most important building blocks for all generative models.

    Apr, 2024 Statistics Generative Modelling

Contact

Mail: md.faizal@research.iiit.ac.in
Address: IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana - 500032.