Ajay U. Mandlekar
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Ajay Mandlekar |
Contact
Email: amandlekar@nvidia.com
Twitter: @AjayMandlekar
Google Scholar: Ajay Mandlekar
Github: amandlek
CV: link
Recent News
[November 2023] HITL-TAMP was selected as a best paper runner-up at the CoRL2023 Deployable Workshop.
[November 2023] We released our MimicGen datasets and simulation environments! The release includes over 48,000 task demonstrations across 12 tasks generated from just 120 human demos, and integrates directly with robomimic.
[November 2023] Code and datasets for OPTIMUS have been released! Try training visuomotor transformers on our TAMP-collected datasets, or on your own datasets today. Integrates directly with robomimic.
[November 2023] 3 papers (MimicGen, HITL-TAMP, OPTIMUS) presented at CoRL 2023. MimicGen is an oral at the CoRL 2023 Towards Generalist Robots Workshop and HITL-TAMP is an oral at the CoRL 2023 Deployable Workshop.
[May 2023] We introduced Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention.
About Me
I am a research scientist at NVIDIA AI working with Dieter Fox in the Seattle Robotics Lab. I obtained my PhD degree from Stanford University, co-advised by Silvio Savarese and Fei-Fei Li. My research focuses on developing systems and algorithms to enable robots to learn useful manipulation tasks.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University co-advised by Silvio Savarese and Fei-Fei Li, September 2016 - January 2022
M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, June 2018
B.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, June 2016
B.S., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, June 2016
Monta Vista High School, Class of 2012