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Satvik Sharma is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, agriculture, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing autonomous systems for complex, real-world environments. His most impactful work centers on polyculture farming automation, where he introduced AlphaGardenSim—a simulation and testbed for training policies that manage plant diversity and precision irrigation. This work, cited 15 times, demonstrates how robots can reduce pesticide and water use while improving soil health, challenging the dominance of monoculture farming. Sharma also advanced robot fleet learning with Fleet-DAgger, a scalable framework for human supervision that enables continual improvement of commercial robot fleets, earning 8 citations. His contributions extend to sim-to-real transfer for fabric manipulation, where he developed switching criteria to ensure policies are robust before deployment (7 citations), and semantic mechanical search, leveraging large vision-language models to locate occluded objects (4 citations). Notably, his AlphaGarden system was systematically compared against professional horticulturalists, showcasing its ability to match or exceed human performance in polyculture gardening. Sharma’s work, including the agile MARVEL wall-climbing robot, underscores his commitment to bridging simulation and reality, making him a pivotal figure in autonomous agriculture and robot learning.