
Hey, I'm Shreeyam. I am a machine learning researcher working on representation learning and planning for autonomous systems. I received my PhD from MIT's STAR Lab, with PI Prof. Kerri Cahoy, where my research focused on autonomous tasking formulations for Earth-observing satellites using computer vision, onboard planning, and edge ML.
At Planet, I work on onboard ML and edge compute and autonomy for high resolution Earth-observing satellites. My previous experience also includes photonics at X, the moonshot factory (formerly Google [x]).
Selected Research
Publications
Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy
in prep.
Josef Biberstein, Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy, Sertac Karaman
in prep.; targeting ICRA 2027
Shreeyam Kacker, Miles Shepherd, Kerri Cahoy
in prep.
Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy
arXiv:2604.19062, 2026
Shreeyam Kacker, Kiruthika Devaraj, Işil Demir, Steve Chien, Kerri Cahoy
39th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2025
Josef Biberstein, Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy, Sertac Karaman
International Conference on Space Robotics, 2025
Violet Felt, Shreeyam Kacker, Joe Kusters, John Pendergrast, Kerri Cahoy
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 61, 2023
Shreeyam Kacker, Alex Meredith, Violet Felt, Joe Kusters, Hannah Tomio, Kerri Cahoy
AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2022
Shreeyam Kacker, Alex Meredith, Kerri Cahoy, Georges Labreche
36th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2022