About Me



Chahat Deep Singh


Assistant Professor in Robotics

Perception, Robotics, AI and Sensing (PRAISe) Lab
Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder


I am an assistant robotics professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Perception, Robotics, AI and Sensing (PRAISe) Lab at University of Colorado - Boulder. I graduated with doctoral and master's degrees in Computer Science and Robotics, respectively, from the University of Maryland. My research focuses on developing minimal perception architectures to enable onboard autonomy on robots as small as a credit card. I was also awarded the Ann G. Wylie Fellowship for outstanding dissertation for 2022-2023, the Future Faculty Fellowship 2022-2023, and the University of Maryland's Dean Fellowship 2018-2020. My work has been featured on the cover of Science Robotics, BBC, IEEE Spectrum, Voice of America, NVIDIA, Futurism, Maryland Today, Tech Crunch, and much more. I have also been a reviewer for T-PAMI, T-CI, RA-L, T-ASE, CVPR, ICRA, IROS, ICCV, and RSS, among other top journals and conferences. For more, please visit http://praisecu.github.io/ . Apart from research, I love to teach! In my spare time, I love to capture nature on my camera, especially landscapes and wildlife, create digital artwork, and watch/play competitive video games — Counter-Strike and Dota 2. You can also find my mother's artwork portfolio here.


Educational Lineage



Assistant Professor in Robotics

University of Colorado, Boulder

July 2024 - Present


Postdoctoral Associate

Maryland Robotics Center

University of Maryland

Advisors: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos
Prof. Pratap Tokekar

July 2023 - Present


Ph.D. in Computer Science

Perception and Robotics Group (PRG)

University of Maryland

Advisor: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos

Aug 2018 - June 2023

Worked on Minmalist Perception framework for resource-constrained robots.



Masters in Robotics

Perception and Robotics Group (PRG)

University of Maryland

Advisor: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos

2016 - 2018

Worked on active perception principles for drone navigation.



Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, New Delhi

Advisor: Prof. Shifaly Sharma

2011 - 2015

Worked on robot walking algorithms and sensor design.