Kushagra "Kush" Tiwary

I'm a 3rd year PhD Student at MIT co-advised by Boris Katz, Tomaso Poggio, and Ramesh Raskar. I also work closely with Brian Cheung.

My research builds machines that discover new scientific principles and designs. This includes building the intelligence that can discover new things and design worlds where discovery can happen, i.e. understanding what computational principles produce intelligence that can discover requires worlds for that intelligence to discover in, and those worlds must keep discovery honest.

I received my S.M. in 2023 from MIT, where I worked on 3D vision and imaging, specifically on incorporating realistic physics of light propagation to improve neural rendering. I received my B.S.'19 in ECE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I worked on computer vision and robotics. Prior to MIT, I worked on vision and robotics and built the Software 2.0 stack at a self-driving startup called Optimus Ride.

I've exhibited work at the MIT Museum and the Museum of Science, and I'm grateful to be the first in my extended family to be in a PhD program. Reach out to chat or collaborate.