Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala
Research Enginer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: MS New York University; B.Tech Acharya Nagarjuna University
Research Websites: Embodied AI and Robotics Lab (AIR) Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR)
Research Areas: Physical Human–Robot Interaction (pHRI); Embodied AI; Humanoid Robotics; Force-Aware Learning; Teleoperation & Shared Autonomy
Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala is a Research Engineer in the Embodied AI and Robotics Lab with Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at New York University Abu Dhabi. He holds an MS in Mechatronics and Robotics from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University. He received both the Andhra Pradesh State Government Scholarship and the NYU Tandon Merit Scholarship in support of his graduate studies.
Bethala’s research focus lies at the intersection of physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), embodied AI, and force-aware learning for humanoid and mobile robotic systems. His recent and ongoing research focuses on whole-body humanoid control, multimodal policy learning, LLM-guided navigation, and robot understanding of human intent. His work has been accepted to top international conferences, including ICRA, IROS, Humanoids, ICCV, CVPR, and ICLR.
Before joining NYU Abu Dhabi, Bethala served as an Assistant Research Scientist at New York University and held research appointments in the Embodied AI and Robotics Lab, AI4CE Lab, and the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Lab. He is a national winner of the Smart India Hackathon (Hardware Edition), holds two international patents in assistive robotics and IoT systems, and received the NCC Army Wing Best Cadet Award.