Patrick Grady
Robotics PhD Student at Georgia Tech
Hi! My name is Patrick; I’m currently a PhD student in the Robotics department at the Georgia Institute for Technology. I’m advised by Charlie Kemp and James Hays. My research has been in computer vision and robotics, and my work has focused on understanding precisely how humans and robots manipulate the world through the lens of contact. I’ve had a great time interning with Chengcheng Tang and Chris Twigg at Meta Reality Labs.
Before coming to Georgia Tech, I did my undergrad at Duke in computer science and electrical engineering. I got to lead Duke Electric Vehicles, a team of undergraduates building ultra-efficient cars. During my tenure as president, we set the world record for Most Fuel-Efficient Vehicle at 14,573 MPG, and Most Efficient Electric Vehicle at 27,482 MPGe.
In my free time, I like to fly gliders. These are a type of airplane without an engine which use thermals and mountain wave to stay aloft. My longest flight is 9 hours and covered 500 miles, and I hold 11 Georgia state records for soaring. Click here for more! I also enjoy photography and building things with my hands.
publications
- Visual Contact Pressure Estimation for Grippers in the WildIEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
- Visual Estimation of Fingertip Pressure on Diverse Surfaces using Easily Captured DataarXiv, 2023
- Masked Reconstruction Based Self-supervision for Human Activity RecognitionInternational Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), 2020