Rhythm Syed
rhythm dot syed at columbia dot edu

I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, happily advised by Yunzhu Li and Tony Dear. I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

I want to build robots that can reason about and interact with the physical world. My research interests include vision-language-action policies, world models, and agentic systems for robotic manipulation.

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News

[Mar 2026] Giving a talk at the Computing Research Association Grad Cohort Workshop.
[Jan 2026] Started my internship at Toyota Research Institute on the Large Behavior Models team.
[Jan 2025] Started my PhD at Columbia University!

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