Advait Patel

About me

Last updated: December 2025

I am a senior at the University of Illinois (UIUC) studying computer science. Currently, I'm on a gap semester working on frontier model research at Dyna Robotics. My interests include robotics, deep learning, math, and software engineering. My goal for the next decade is to make robots ubiquitous in our everyday lives.

Last summer, I was writing robotics infrastructure in Rust for Anduril Industries. Previous experiences also include full-stack development at Capital One and LLM finetuning at a startup.

At UIUC, I'm currently a founder and co-chair for SIGRobotics, a special interest group under ACM@UIUC dedicated to encouraging project-based exploration in robotics.

Feel free to contact me via email (advaitpatel04 at gmail dot com) or through any of the following links: X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Resume.

Past work

• Various robotics projects through SIGRobotics and on my own time, such as building a miniature humanoid, training robotic arms to fold laundry, and learning control theory.
• Developed LeKiwi — a low-cost, open-source mobile manipulator — in collaboration with Huggingface/LeRobot. The project has over 1K stars on Github and has been built by hackers all over the world, has inspired several variants, and is even sold as a kit by several companies.
• Explored Real2Sim pipelines for evaluating robotics policies under Yunzhu Li and Lana Lazebnik.