Rohan Paleja
Dr. Rohan Paleja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He directs the Strategies for Collaboration, Autonomy, Learning, and Exploration in Robotics Lab. The SCALE Robotics Lab focuses on advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multi-agent collaboration. Their goal is to equip autonomous agents with the ability to operate in the diverse, un… ↓More
Joined department: Fall 2025
Research Areas
- Robotics and Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
Education
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Robotics (2023)
Dr. Rohan Paleja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He directs the Strategies for Collaboration, Autonomy, Learning, and Exploration in Robotics Lab. The SCALE Robotics Lab focuses on advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve robot learning, human-robot interaction, and multi-agent collaboration. Their goal is to equip autonomous agents with the ability to operate in the diverse, unstructured, and human-rich environments these agents will encounter in the real world.
Dr. Paleja's research interests cover a broad range of topics, namely Explainable AI (xAI), Interactive Robot Learning, and Multi-Agent Collaboration. Prior to Purdue, Dr. Paleja was a Technical Staff Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Technology group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he collaborated with the Air Force Experimental Operations Unit and the Army Research Lab. Prior to that, he earned his Ph.D. in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023.
His work has received multiple awards, including a Best Paper Finalist Award at the Conference of Robot Learning (CoRL) and a Best Workshop Paper Award at the International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) Multi-Agent Relational Reasoning Workshop.
Note: This page is not updated regularly. For a list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.
Selected Publications
Sreeramdass, V., Paleja, R.R., Chen, L., Waveren, S.V., & Gombolay, M.C. (2025). Generalized Behavior Learning from Diverse Demonstrations. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). PDF
Paleja*, R., Niu*, Y., Silva, A., Ritchie, C., Choi, S., and Gombolay, M. (2022) "Learning Interpretable, High-Performing Policies for Autonomous Driving" In Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS). PDF
Paleja, R.R., Munje, M., Chang, K.C., Jensen, R., & Gombolay, M.C. (2024). Designs for Enabling Collaboration in Human-Machine Teaming via Interactive and Explainable Systems. In Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). PDF
Hurley, I., Paleja, R.R., Suh, A., Peña, J.D., & Siu, H.C. (2024). STL: Still Tricky Logic (for System Validation, Even When Showing Your Work). In Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). PDF