Misha Lvovsky

I'm a PhD Student working on getting robots to generalize behaviors and learn new ones on the fly. When I'm not doing that I like to 3d print robots and paint poorly in acrylics.

Headshot of Misha Lvovsky

Publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science (in progress)

Northeastern University | Expected Spring 2029

M.S. in Computer Science

UMass Amherst | Spring 2024 | GPA: 3.88

B.S. in Computer Science

UMass Amherst | Spring 2023 | GPA: 3.81

Experience

MS Research Assistant | SCALAR Lab

UMass Amherst | Summer 2023 - Spring 2024

Investigated model-based and model-free RL, designed and implemented RL environments, and ran large scale experiments.

Research Assistant | DARoS Lab

UMass Amherst | Spring 2021 - Spring 2023

Designed and built actuators and bipedal robots and extended C++ control stack.

Intern | MIT Lincoln Lab

Lexington, MA | Summer 2023

Built performant C++/CUDA simulations from scratch.

Course Assistant | COMPSCI 403

UMass Amherst | Fall 2022

Ran office hours and graded assignments

Projects

Patroclus

An adorable little bipedal robot, though I am a little biased.

Photo of a small bipedal robot sitting on an office chair with its legs crossed.

My Cats

Biscuit

Photo of a cream tabby clenching his fist in rage.

An antsy cream tabby who loves fish and scratching posts.

Clementine

Photo of a small tortoiseshell cat staring in two different directions at once, looking in neither.

A tiny orange cat with a yarn ball for a brain.