Unnat Jain
Incoming Assistant Professor, Computer Science at UC Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolUnnat Jain is an AI researcher specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and embodied robotics with eight years of experience and is joining UC Irvine as an assistant professor in 2025. He currently builds general-purpose embodied intelligence as a research scientist at a stealth robotics startup after research roles at Meta FAIR (CMU) and internships at DeepMind, Facebook AI and AI2 focused on interactive imitation learning and audio-visual embodied navigation. His work spans representation learning, visual navigation, and embodied learning, pairing academic rigor—a PhD and MS from UIUC (4.0) and a dual B.Tech–M.Tech from IIT Kanpur with top marks—with industry-scale system building. Beyond papers, he has hands-on experience designing benchmarks and coursework (he created a Kaggle competition for a 150+ student vision class) and has contributed to soundspaces-style audio-visual navigation research that bridges perception and action.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurSt. James' School, KolkataUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (28)
computer-vision8
interaction8
reinforcement-learning8
robotics8
simulator8
simulation7
multiple-choice7
deep-learning7
python7
ai6
physics-engine6
machine-learning6
django6
lms6
pytorch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karanganju/2048RL
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes in 10 months
unnat/active_gcn_ner
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 2 days
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