Koushil Sreenath

Koushil Sreenath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he leads the Hybrid Robotics Lab. His research focuses on nonlinear control, hybrid dynamical systems, and achieving agile, energy-efficient, and robust behaviors on highly underactuated robots such as bipeds, quadrupeds, and aerial vehicles. Sreenath’s group develops controllers that unify analytical modeling with learning-based methods to handle systems characterized by nonlinearities, unilateral constraints, and high-dimensional dynamics. His work spans dynamic bipedal walking and running, aerial manipulation, safety-critical model predictive control, and iterative optimization frameworks that operate reliably in uncertain and hard-to-model environments. By integrating physics-based understanding with data-driven approaches, his lab aims to enable robots capable of executing fast, adaptive, and safe maneuvers in real-world settings. Sreenath is also active in collaborations that link robotics, control theory, and machine learning to advance the capabilities of next-generation embodied systems.