Gavriel State
Senior Director, Simulation And AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarGavriel State is a seasoned technology leader with 25 years of experience bridging graphics, portability and AI, currently serving as Senior Director, Simulation and AI at NVIDIA. He founded TransGaming and led its growth from startup to public company, driving portability technologies like SwiftShader and ANGLE while forging partnerships across the games and semiconductor ecosystems. At NVIDIA he blends game-engine techniques with reinforcement learning and synthetic data to teach agents in photorealistic simulated worlds, and quietly works on advanced portability and binary translation projects. Known for pragmatic technical leadership—from assembler-level debugging to standards work at the Khronos Group—he brings rare depth in both low-level systems and applied AI. Based in Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with long-standing influence in graphics, emulation and simulation technologies.
25 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (25)
python10
gymnasium10
openai-gym10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
omniverse10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
numpy9
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
isaac-sim/IsaacGymEnvs
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Isaac Gym Reinforcement Learning Environments
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 32 comments in 1 year 1 month
reinforcement-learninggymnasiumdeep-reinforcement-learningisaacreinforcement-learning-environments
gavrielstate/OmniIsaacGymEnvs
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Reinforcement Learning Environments for Omniverse Isaac Gym
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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