Caelan Garrett
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCaelan Garrett is a research scientist at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial robotics. He earned his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. in EECS from MIT, where he spent years in CSAIL's Learning and Intelligent Systems Group focusing on perception and learning for embodied agents. At NVIDIA he translates cutting-edge research into scalable robotics systems, building on internships at Amazon Robotics, Optimus Ride, and prior stints at Google and Twitter. His background combines strong theoretical foundations with hands-on computer vision and perception engineering, a mix that helps accelerate real-world robotic autonomy. Notably, his trajectory reflects a consistent thread of applied research—moving from undergraduate projects to doctoral work to production-focused research roles—underscoring an ability to take ideas from prototype to deployment. Based in Seattle, he contributes to advancing robotics by marrying rigorous ML methods with practical system engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Advanced Diploma, High School Advanced Diploma at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (38)
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
python10
pddl10
manipulation10
bullet-physics10
pybullet10
planning10
motion-planning10
blackbox10
verification9
urdf9
ros8
kinematics8
hierarchical7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caelan/TemporalFastDownward
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
caelan/stripstream
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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