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<title>Nishant Kheterpal</title>
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<body>
<div id="intro">
<div class="intro-main">
<div class="intro-left">
<img src="headshot.jpg" alt="Nishant Kheterpal" class="headshot" />
<div class="contact-info">
<a href="mailto:nskh@umich.edu">nskh@umich.edu</a>
<br />
<a href="cv.pdf">CV</a>
|
<a
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hDYcVFUAAAAJ&hl=en"
>
<i class="fa fa-graduation-cap"></i>
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="intro-text">
<h2>Hi! I'm Nishant.</h2>
<p>
I'm a PhD candidate in
<a href="https://robotics.umich.edu">Robotics</a> at the University
of Michigan, advised by
<a href="https://jeannin.github.io">Jean-Baptiste Jeannin</a>. My
research concerns applied formal methods, in the domains of
safety-critical systems, proof automation, and education.
</p>
<p>
I'm passionate about teaching computer science, robotics, and data
science, with eleven terms of teaching experience across three
institutions. Over Summer 2024, I taught two introductory courses at
the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego as instructor
of record. Previously, I earned a B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and spent two years
working in self-driving at Uber ATG and Ike Robotics.
<br />
<span class="job-market-bubble">
<strong>
I am on the job market for teaching-track faculty positions
beginning Fall 2026.
</strong>
</span>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h2>Teaching</h2>
<h3>Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego</h3>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">Instructor of Record - DSC 10</span>
<span class="item-date"
><a
href="https://dsc-courses.github.io/dsc10-2024-su/"
target="_blank"
>Summer Session I 2024</a
></span
>
</div>
</div>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">Instructor of Record - DSC 40A</span>
<span class="item-date"
><a
href="https://dsc-courses.github.io/dsc40a-2024-su-ii/"
target="_blank"
>Summer Session II 2024</a
></span
>
</div>
</div>
<h3>University of Michigan</h3>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">
Lead Graduate Student Instructor - EECS 280
</span>
<span class="item-date">
<a href="https://eecs280.org/w24" target="_blank">Winter 2024</a>,
<a href="https://eecs280.org" target="_blank">Fall 2025</a>
</span>
</div>
<span class="item-description"> Quiz lead in Fall 2025 </span>
</div>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title"
>Head Graduate Student Instructor - Practical Data Science (EECS
398-003)</span
>
<span class="item-date"
><a href="https://practicaldsc.org/fa24" target="_blank"
>Fall 2024</a
></span
>
</div>
<span class="item-description">
Honorable Mention for College of Engineering Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs (top 6 of 90 nominees)
</span>
</div>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">Guest Lecturer - EECS 590, Aero 552</span>
<span class="item-date">Fall 2023, Winter 2024</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title"
>Graduate Student Instructor - Robotics 599</span
>
<span class="item-date">Fall 2023</span>
</div>
</div>
<h3>University of California, Berkeley</h3>
<div class="teaching-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title"
>Data 8 - Undergraduate Student Instructor</span
>
<span class="item-date"
><a href="https://data8.org/fa16" target="_blank">Fa16</a>,
<a href="https://data8.org/sp17" target="_blank">Sp17</a>,
<a href="https://data8.org/fa17" target="_blank">Fa17</a>,
<a href="https://data8.org/sp18" target="_blank">Sp18</a>,
<a href="https://data8.org/fa18" target="_blank">Fa18</a>
</span>
</div>
<span class="item-description">
Received Outstanding GSI Award (Top 9% of GSIs)
</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h2>Publications</h2>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, J. Tanner Slagel, Elanor Tang, Serra
Z. Dane, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, "Automatic Certification of the Active
Corner Method for Collision Avoidance." To appear at NFM 2026.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
Janine Tiefenbruck, <strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Suraj Rampure,
"<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCTI_8bqI8"
target="_blank"
>RISE and Shine: Teaching With Jupyter Notebooks in Real Time.</a
>"
<strong>Talk</strong> presented at <em>JupyterCon</em>, 2025.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, "<a
href="https://jeannin.github.io/papers/kheterpal2023towards.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Towards a study of performance for safe neural network training.</a
>"
<em>
Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems, CAV</em
>, 2023.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, "<a
href="https://jeannin.github.io/papers/kheterpal2022formalization.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Towards a Formalization of the Active Corner Method for Collision
Avoidance in PVS.</a
>" <em>Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, SPLASH</em>, 2022.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Elanor Tang, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin,
"<a
href="https://jeannin.github.io/papers/kheterpal2022automating.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Automating Geometric Proofs of Collision Avoidance with Active
Corners.</a
>" <em>Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design</em>, 2022. (40 accepted
/ 88 submissions)
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Eugene Vinitsky, Cathy Wu, Aboudy
Kreidieh, Kathy Jang, Kanaad Parvate, Alexandre M. Bayen, "<a
href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=r1lT6YT4hm"
target="_blank"
>Flow: Open Source Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Control.</a
>" <em>Workshop on Machine Learning Open-Source Software, NeurIPS</em>,
2018.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
Eugene Vinitsky, Aboudy Kreidieh, Luc Le Flem,
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Kathy Jang, Cathy Wu, Fangyu Wu,
Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, Alexandre M. Bayen, "<a
href="https://proceedings.mlr.press/v87/vinitsky18a/vinitsky18a.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic.</a
>" <em>Conference on Robot Learning</em>. 2018.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
<strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Kanaad Parvate, Cathy Wu, Aboudy
Kreidieh, Eugene Vinitsky, Alexandre M. Bayen, "<a
href="https://flow-project.github.io/papers/Flow_Deep_Reinforcement_Learning_for_Control_in_SUMO.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Flow: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control in SUMO</a
>", <em>SUMO User Conference</em>, 2018.
</div>
<div class="publication-item">
Cathy Wu, Kanaad Parvate, <strong>Nishant Kheterpal</strong>, Leah
Dickstein, Ankur Mehta, Eugene Vinitsky, Alexandre M. Bayen, "<a
href="itsc_cistar_paper.pdf"
target="_blank"
>Framework for Control and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Traffic.</a
>" <em>Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)</em>, 2017 IEEE 20th
International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h2>Education</h2>
<div class="education-item">
<h3>University of Michigan</h3>
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">PhD in Robotics</span>
<span class="item-date">expected 2026</span>
</div>
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">MS in Robotics</span>
<span class="item-date">2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="education-item">
<h3>University of California, Berkeley</h3>
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-title">
BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
</span>
<span class="item-date">2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h2>Media</h2>
<div class="media-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
><strong>Wired</strong> - "<a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240206160525/https://www.wired.com/wiredinsider/2019/08/autonomous-vehicles-answer-growing-traffic-woes/"
>Autonomous Vehicles: The Answer to Our Growing Traffic Woes</a
>"
</span>
<span class="item-right">August 2019</span>
</div>
<!-- Feature on autonomous vehicle traffic management research from Berkeley -->
<!-- Deep Drive -->
</div>
<div class="media-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
><strong>Wall Street Journal</strong> - "<a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-berkeley-its-big-data-on-campus-1541066401"
>At Berkeley, It's Big Data on Campus</a
>"</span
>
<span class="item-right">December 2018</span>
</div>
<!-- Featured coverage of Data 8 course where I served as pedagogy lead TA
for 1200+ students -->
</div>
<div class="media-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
><strong>Berkeley Engineering</strong> - "<a
href="https://engineering.berkeley.edu/2018/10/turning-cars-robot-traffic-managers"
>Turning Cars into Robot Traffic Managers</a
>"</span
>
<span class="item-right">October 2018</span>
</div>
<!-- Coverage of Flow project research on traffic-mitigating strategies for
autonomous vehicles -->
</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h2>Honors and Awards</h2>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs, UM College of Engineering -
Honorable Mention (top 6 of 90 nominees)</span
>
<span class="item-right">2025</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-left"
>Graduate Teacher Certificate, University of Michigan</span
>
<span class="item-date">2024</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-header">
<span class="item-left">NASA Graduate Fellowship</span>
<span class="item-date">2021-2023</span>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left">Rackham Travel Grant Recipient</span>
<span class="item-right">2022</span>
</div>
</div> -->
<!-- <div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention</span
>
<span class="item-right">2021</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>Berkeley Engineering Honors to Date - Top 20% GPA</span
>
<span class="item-right">Fall 2015 - Fall 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>Bronze Medal Winner - Siemens-UC Berkeley Hackathon</span
>
<span class="item-right">2018</span>
</div>
</div> -->
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left">
UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award - Top 9%
of GSIs
</span>
<span class="item-right">
<a
href="https://gsi.berkeley.edu/programs-services/award-programs/ogsi/ogsi-2018/#:~:text=Nishant%20Kheterpal"
target="_blank"
>
2018
</a>
</span>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>Member, Eta Kappa Nu, Mu (Berkeley) Chapter - Top 25% of EECS
Majors</span
>
<span class="item-right">Fall 2016</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>College of Engineering Dean's List - Top 10% GPA</span
>
<span class="item-right">Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="award-item">
<div class="item-three-part">
<span class="item-left"
>Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition - Top 100</span
>
<span class="item-right">2015</span>
</div>
</div> -->
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