His research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Robotics. He has led the design of several AI systems which won the CVPR-2019 PointNav and CVPR-2020 ObjectNav Habitat Challenges and the Visual-Doom AI Competition 2017. Chaplot is a recipient of Facebook Fellowship Award and his research has received Best Paper and Best Demo awards at leading AI conferences. His research has also been featured in several popular media outlets such as MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Engadget, Popular Science, Kotaku, and Daily Mail.