Ashwin Balakrishna
Member Of The Technical Staff at Physical Intelligence
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Balakrishna is a machine learning researcher and engineer with nine years of experience building robot brains and foundation models for embodied AI. He has held research roles at Toyota Research Institute and Google DeepMind—where he worked on robot intelligence with Gemini—and now contributes as a Member of the Technical Staff at Physical Intelligence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ashwin combines a PhD-level background from UC Berkeley EECS with hands-on experience in multimodal VLMs and robotics, translating cutting-edge research into practical systems. Known for a focus on general-purpose robot cognition, he blends deep academic training with industry-scale engineering to push robots toward more flexible, world-aware behavior.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
self-supervised-learning6
reinforcement-learning6
3d5
openai-gym4
deep-reinforcement-learning3
computer-vision3
ddpg3
perception2
deep-learning2
pytorch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
abalakrishna123/recovery-rl
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Implementation of Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones.
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 months
reinforcement-learning
michaelzhiluo/mesa-safe-rl
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:193 commits in 5 months
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