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
[July 2025] Check out MimicLabs, a careful study in collecting and using large-scale manipulation datasets, conducted through the power of simulation and synthetic data generation. We release the full framework, consisting of data generation code, simulation environments, and datasets.
[June 2025] Check out DexMachina, a novel curriculum-based algorithm for functional retargeting, enabling learning bimanual dexterous manipulation across several different robotic hands.
[April 2025] We have released the DexMimicGen simulation environments and datasets and the AHA codebase.
About Me
I am a research scientist at NVIDIA AI. 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.
History
Research Scientist, NVIDIA GEAR Lab, July 2025 - Present
Research Scientist, NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab, January 2022 - June 2025
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