I am a roboticist at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), where I lead efforts in building frontier robotics models to achieve personal superintelligence in the physical world.
Industry: I am the co-founder and CEO of Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), which was acquired by Meta in May 2026. Previously, I co-founded Fauna Robotics (acquired by Amazon).
Academic: I run the General Robotics & AI Lab (GRAIL) at NYU, where my group focuses on robot learning (both data and models), sensory representation learning, action and behavior modeling, reinforcement learning for adaptation, and the development of affordable, open-source robots. My work has been recognized with the Samsung AI researcher of the year award, Sloan Fellowship, Packard Fellowship, CIFAR Fellowship, TR35, IEEE RAS Early Career and NSF CAREER awards. Recent papers from my group are here
Recent Talks
Here are some public talks that covers my recent research:
(March 2023) CMU RI Seminar - A Constructivist’s Guide to Robot Learning.
(May 2022) ETHZ Robot Autonomy Seminar - The Surprising Effectiveness of Representations for Robotics.
(May 2020) MIT EI Seminar - Diverse Data and Efficient Algorithms for Robot Learning.
Courses Taught at NYU
(Fall 2024) CSCI-UA.480-073 Special Topics: Introduction to Robot Intelligence. Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
(Spring 2024) CSCI-GA.3033-090 Deep Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning. (Fall 2021, Fall 2020)
(Fall 2022) CSCI-UA 473 Introduction to Machine Learning.
(Spring 2021) CSCI-UA 74 Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence.
Selected Research and Publications
