Yajvan Ravan

MIT EECS, robotics and AI

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Experience

  • ML at Sunday
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • ML at Fortyfive Labs
    Jun 2025 - Dec 2025 · 7 mos

    MIT CSAIL spin-off building open-source robotics tool suite and data hub

  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) ()
    • Undergraduate Researcher, Isola Group
      Oct 2024 - May 2025 · 8 mos

      Built LucidXR, a VR data engine to scale learning-from-demonstration for manipulation tasks. Co-first author publication in CoRL 2025. https://lucidxr.github.io/

    • Undergraduate Researcher (Robotics), LIS Group
      Sep 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Developed PoPi, a hierarchical system for long-horizon mobile manipulation with unknown dynamics. https://yravan.github.io/plannerorderedpolicy/.

  • Computer Vision Intern at NASA Langley Research Center
    Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 · 7 mos

    Built real-time wildfire detection system on multispectral satellite imagery. First-author paper, AIAA SciTech 2026.

  • International Chemistry Olympiad Gold Medallist at American Chemical Society
    Jul 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo