Devendra Chaplot
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevendra Chaplot is an AI research scientist and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cutting-edge ML, computer vision and robotics systems, now at xAI after co-founding and leading multimodal research at Mistral AI. He led design of award-winning embodied AI systems (PointNav, ObjectNav, Rearrangement) and shipped foundational models like Mistral 7B and Pixtral variants, blending deep research rigor from a CMU PhD with product-grade model engineering. A Facebook Fellowship recipient whose work earned Best Paper/Demo honors and media coverage from MIT Technology Review to TechCrunch, he bridges academic impact and real-world deployment. Based in Palo Alto, he also invests in AI startups and brings a pattern of founding teams, challenge wins, and practical model releases that few researchers match.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (40)
simulation10
robotics10
python10
simulator10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
explore10
ai10
jekyll10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
high-performance10
reinforcement-learning9
numpy9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
devendrachaplot/Neural-SLAM
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Pytorch code for ICLR-20 Paper "Learning to Explore using Active Neural SLAM"
Contributions:2 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
visual-navigationpytorchroboticsiclrexplore
devendrachaplot/TicketMaster
Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
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