Research Scientist In Embodied AI, Hand-Manipulation, Robotics

Vikash Kumar

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About Me

I am currently an adjunct professor at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). I have also served as Senior Research Scientist at premiere research institutions like OpenAI, Google-Brain, Facebook AI Research (FAIR). I did my PhD at CSE, University of Washington's Movement Control Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Emanuel Todorov and Prof. Sergey Levine, and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab with Prof. Sergey Levine

I was born and brought up in central eastern India in a beautiful city called Ranchi . Ranchi lies on the eastern rim of the Deccan plateau that covers most of the Indian peninsula. I did my schooling in Ranchi from D.A.V, Hehal, Ranchi (wiki). Before joining Univ. of Washington for my graduate studies, I did my undergrad and masters in "Mathematics and Computing" from Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kharagpur,India.

Research

My research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of embodied movement across biological, digital, and electromechanical systems. I am interested in building artificial beings—both digital and physical—that are indistinguishable from humans in their appearance, spatial reasoning, and behavioral intelligence.

I leverage tools from Machine Learning, Biomechanics, Robotics, and Optimal Control to design sample-efficient algorithms that scale to deliver embodied abilities surpassing human-level dexterity and agility.

Contact

Email: [First name]plus[a t]gmail

Interests

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