Carnegie Mellon University

People

Embodied AI hosts a dynamic community of researchers and scientists focused on creating the next generation of robots, with advanced perception, learning and collaborative abilities that can integrate computer vision and novel sensors to interpret sensory data, refine motor skills and improve through experience.

Core Faculty

Yonatan Bisk

Yonatan Bisk

Assistant Professor: Language Technologies Institute & Robotics Institute (Courtesy)  | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: Grounded and embodied natural language processing – placing perception and interaction as central to how language is learned and understood.

Katerina Fragkiadaki

Katerina Fragkiadaki

Associate Professor: Machine Learning Department & Robotics Institute (Courtesy) | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: Building machines that understand the stories that videos portray, and, inversely, in using videos to teach machines about the world.

David Held

Dave Held

Associate Professor: Robotics Institute | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: Perceptual robot learning, i.e. developing new methods at the intersection of robot perception and planning for robots to learn to interact with novel, perceptually challenging and deformable objects.

Oliver Kroemer

Oliver Kroemer

Assistant Professor: Robotics Institute | School of Computer Science

Research Interests:  Developing algorithms and representations to enable robots to learn versatile manipulation skills over time. The ability to learn skills and adapt manipulations to new situations will open up a wide range of new robot applications, including taking care of the elderly, maintaining parks and public places and assisting in hazardous environments

Deepak Pathak

Deepak Pathak

Assistant Professor: Robotics Institute & Machine Learning Department (affiliate) | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: The intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Robotics. Our ultimate goal is to build agents with a human-like ability to generalize in real and diverse environments. We believe understanding how to continually develop knowledge and acquire new skills from just raw sensory data will play a vital role in achieving this goal. 

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Associate Professor: Machine Learning Department | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: Deep Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models and Large-scale Optimization.

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Guanya Shi 

Assistant Professor: Robotics Institute | School of Computer Science

Research Interests: The intersection of learning and control, spanning the entire spectrum from theory and foundations, algorithms, to real-world applications in robotics and autonomy. The ultimate goal is to develop reliableadaptive, and efficient learning and control methods for embodied intelligence with agility.

Associated Faculty

Andrea Bajcsy

Andrea Bajcsy – RI

Zackory Erickson

Zackory Erickson – RI

Jeff Ichnowski

Jeff Ichnowski – RI

Jean Oh

Jean Oh – RI

Aran Nayebi

Aran Nayebi – MLD

Ding Zhao

Ding Zhao – MechE