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
[April 2025] We have released the DexMimicGen simulation environments and datasets and the AHA codebase.
[April 2025] 3 papers presented at ICLR 2025: MimicLabs (a study in collecting and using large-scale manipulation datasets), AHA (novel failure data generation and failure reasoning framework for robotic manipulation), and LAPA (unsupervised latent action based pretraining for robotic manipulation).
[March 2025] Check out Sim-and-Real Co-Training, a simple recipe that utilizes synthetic data generation tools (such as MimicGen) for efficient real-world robotic manipulation. This recipe was used to train the GR00T-N1 humanoid foundation model as well.
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.
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