Ajay U. Mandlekar
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Ajay Mandlekar |
Contact
Email: amandlek@cs.stanford.edu
Twitter: @AjayMandlekar
Google Scholar: Ajay Mandlekar
Github: amandlek
CV: link
Recent News
[December 2022] Our work on using prior datasets to accelerate imitation learning for new tasks was presented at CoRL 2022.
[December 2022] Our work on model-based counterfactual data augmentation was presented at NeurIPS 2022.
[December 2022] We released a new framework called MineDojo for building generalist agents that can solve open-ended tasks with internet scale knowledge in MineCraft. MineDojo was presented at NeurIPS 2022.
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