I am an AI researcher working across vision, robotics, and agentic systems. I am broadly interested in building intelligent systems that can better understand the physical world, reason about people and other agents, and operate reliably in real-world environments.
Currently, I am a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan. My research explores new ways of sensing and understanding the world, including physically grounded methods that use heat and light transport to recover scene geometry, material properties, and semantics. More recently, I have also been working on agentic AI, embodied systems, and physics-aware models for perception, interaction, and scientific discovery.
Before starting my Ph.D., I was a Research Scholar at NEC Laboratories America, where I worked with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker on trajectory prediction, embodied AI, and autonomous driving.
You can reach me at snochurn [at] cs.cmu.edu.
News
- 06/26 Dual Band Thermal Videography won the Best Poster Award at the Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) workshop, CVPRW 2026! 🎉
- 04/26 Dual Band Thermal Videography accepted to CVPR 2026 as an (Oral) and named a Best Paper Candidate! 🎉
- 03/26 PhyCo and Dual Band Thermal Videography accepted to CVPR 2026.
- 06/25 Paper on resolving ambiguities in shape-from-heat conduction accepted to ICCP 2025.
- 07/24 Paper Shape from Heat Conduction accepted to ECCV 2024 (Oral).
- 02/24 Paper on visible-thermal light transport accepted to CVPR 2024.
- 01/24 Paper on long-horizon object transport accepted to ICRA 2024.
- 08/22 Moved to Pittsburgh and started my PhD at RI, CMU.
- 10/21 Talk on Predicting simultaneous multi-hypotheses futures at Robotics Research Group, IIT BHU.
- 02/21 Paper Divide and Conquer for Lane-Aware Diverse Trajectory Prediction accepted to CVPR 2021 (Oral).
- 07/20 Paper SMART: Simultaneous Multi-Agent Recurrent Trajectory Prediction accepted to ECCV 2020.
- 07/19 Joined NEC Labs America as a Research Scholar.
- 06/19 Paper Talk to the Vehicle: Language Conditioned Autonomous Navigation accepted at IROS 2019.
- 04/19 Paper A Hierarchical Network for Diverse Trajectory Proposals accepted at IV 2019.
Publications
2026
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026
2025
2024
2022
2021
2020
2019
Selected Projects
Building Perception, Planning and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Bachelor thesis at IIIT Hyderabad. Designed low-level controller from scratch for a stock car, integrated perception (ORB-SLAM, LOAM) and planning (RRT*) modules, and demonstrated static obstacle avoidance in tight spaces.
Bothoven - Eyantra Robotics Competition
A multi-robot task execution problem where two robots simultaneously plan paths, coordinate, and play an audio file concurrently. Uses FFT to decode notes and dynamic replanning on obstacle encounters.
Swarath - Self Driving Car
Internship project at IIIT Delhi during Summer 2017, where I worked on building an SDV prototype. Designed controller and planner for the vehicle, built perception systems using sensor outputs for occupancy, and demonstrated autonomous navigation with GPS waypoints.
Professional Services
Conference Reviewer:
- CVPR: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2021-Present)
- ICCV: IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (2021-Present)
- ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision (2022-Present)
- TCI: IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (2025)
- ICRA: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2020, 2022)
- IROS: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2021)
- AAAI: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (2022, 2025)
