Andrey Kolobov
Principal Researcher Manager Physically Embodied AI & Robotics (PEAR) Group Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrey Kolobov is a Principal Researcher and manager at Microsoft Research who leads the Physically Embodied AI & Robotics (PEAR) group, translating decision-making research into real-world robotic systems. Over an 11-year post-PhD research career he has worked across online and offline RL, imitation learning, planning, scheduling, and model-predictive control, and has shipped research integrated into products like Microsoft Edge and Bing as well as commercial humanoid-robot partnerships. He focuses on scaling large-model decision-making for general-purpose manipulation and has led hands-on model training for humanoid robotics collaborations. Andrey’s work uniquely spans both highly academic outputs (Nature Communications) and practical systems—Ardupilot drones to transformer-driven manipulators—demonstrating an uncommon ability to move algorithms from benchmarks into deployed, impactful systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyCybernetics, Cybernetics at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (36)
robotics10
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
plane10
rover10
infrastructure10
dronekit10
arduino10
ros10
crossword9
mocap9
manipulator9
motion-capture8
mujoco5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Optimal-Freshness-Crawl-Scheduling
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Dataset and code for Optimal Freshness Crawl Under Politeness Constraints from SIGIR 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
politenessdatasetcrawloptimalsigir
akolobov/ardupilot_wiki
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Repository for Ardupilot wiki issues and wiki-specific website infrastructure.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
dataminingardupilotinfrastructuretiddlywiki5autopilot
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