Micah Nye

Hi, I’m Micah! I am a Masters in Robotics Student at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy with Profs. Sebastian Scherer and Wenshan Wang in the AirLab in the Off-road Autonomy Group.

My research interest is in the intersection of field robotics, controls, and machine learning to develop robots that can continuously learn in new scenarios by reasoning about environment contexts and uncertainty. Developing such robots will help robots navigate severe, challenging environments with precision and an acute understanding of where it is navigating. I am most recently working on autonomous off-road robots.

Prior to this, I led an autonomous racing team, MIT-PITT-RW, where I developed adversarial path planners to overtake opponents at 155+ mph. We competed in competitions across the globe, at famous F1 circuits like Monza.

News

May 20, 2025	I presented the BETTY Dataset at ICRA 2025.
Aug 20, 2024	I started my M.S. Robotics at CMU.
Apr 11, 2024	I received the inaugural CMU Rales Fellowship.

Selected Publications

ICRA

BETTY Dataset: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Full-Stack Autonomy

Micah Nye, Ayoub Raji, Andrew Saba, and 9 more authors

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

DOI arXiv Bib Website

@inproceedings{nye2025betty,
  author = {Nye, Micah and Raji, Ayoub and Saba, Andrew and Erlich, Eidan and Exley, Robert and Goyal, Aragya and Matros, Alexander and Misra, Ritesh and Sivaprakasam, Matthew and Bertogna, Marko and Ramanan, Deva and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {BETTY Dataset: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Full-Stack Autonomy},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {2453-2460},
  keywords = {Training;Heuristic algorithms;Dynamics;Predictive models;Tires;Stability analysis;Vehicle dynamics;Forecasting;State estimation;Thermal stability},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127350}
}

ICRA

TartanDrive 2.0: More Modalities and Better Infrastructure to Further Self-Supervised Learning Research in Off-Road Driving Tasks

Matthew Sivaprakasam, Parv Maheshwari, Mateo Guaman Castro, and 6 more authors

In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

DOI arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{sivaprakasam2024tartandrive,
  author = {Sivaprakasam, Matthew and Maheshwari, Parv and Castro, Mateo Guaman and Triest, Samuel and Nye, Micah and Willits, Steve and Saba, Andrew and Wang, Wenshan and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {TartanDrive 2.0: More Modalities and Better Infrastructure to Further Self-Supervised Learning Research in Off-Road Driving Tasks},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {12606-12606},
  keywords = {Representation learning;Laser radar;Propioception;Self-supervised learning;Reinforcement learning;Metadata;Sensors},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611265}
}

Selected Community Engagement

Robotics Summer Camp

United Way Venango County

Professional Service

Sep 2025	Peer Reviewer for IEEE RA-L 2025
Sep 2025	Peer Reviewer for IEEE ICRA 2025
Jun 2025	Workshop Co-Organizer for RSS 2025 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics
Mar 2024	Organizer for undergraduate Intro to ROS Robotics Workshop