Ikechukwu Adebi
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolIkechukwu Adebi is a robotics and computer vision researcher and PhD student at UT Austin with a decade of experience building applied ML and robotic systems across academia and industry. He combines hands-on expertise in mobile manipulation, reinforcement learning, and representation learning from roles at MIT CSAIL, Google, IBM, and the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, and currently researches mobile robot manipulation in UT’s Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group with co-advising from LARG. Comfortable across Python, C++, and web stacks, he has shipped production-focused ML pipelines (e.g., conversation summarization and Google Lens label extraction) and developed safety-minded multi-agent and control policies for aerial and ground robots. His work uniquely blends field-oriented projects—like UAV-enabled landslide monitoring and interpretable Guardian Agents for flight assistance—with scalable algorithmic research, reflecting a focus on robust, deployable AI for high-stakes environments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Engineering - MEng, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Engineering - MEng, Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Wilmington Friends SchoolProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danieladebi/danieladebi.github.io
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:240 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Ike-adebi/Personal-Portfolio
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:226 commits, 236 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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