Jacob Krantz
Member Of Technical Staff at Amazon
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Krantz is an AI research-focused software engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact across embodied AI and robotics. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics lab, he previously held research scientist roles at Meta and multiple FAIR internships where he worked on navigation and embodied agent problems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon State University and has a deep background in NLP, having published and presented work since his undergrad research at Gonzaga. Jacob combines hands-on systems and research skills—building experiments, mentoring students, and shipping prototypes—while operating comfortably at the intersection of ML research and production engineering. Based in Menlo Park, he brings a track record of translating novel research into practical embodied-AI capabilities that scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Minor in Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Minor in Physics at Gonzaga UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (25)
robotics10
ai-agent10
python10
simulator10
reinforcement-learning10
vision-and-language10
deep-learning10
ai10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
hidden-markov-model10
genetic-algorithm9
mobile7
lstm7
machine-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jacobkrantz/ProbSyllabifier
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Probabilistic Syllabifier of English language using Genetic Algorithm & HMM
Contributions:148 commits, 1 PR, 138 pushes in 1 year 10 months
genetic-algorithm
jacobkrantz/Sim2Sim-VLNCE
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Official implementation of the ECCV 2022 Oral paper: Sim-2-Sim Transfer for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
vision-and-language
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