Jorge Mendez-mendez
Assistant Professor In Electrical And Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJorge Mendez-mendez is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University with nine years of experience in lifelong and compositional machine learning for embodied agents. He completed a PhD at UPenn’s Lifelong Machine Learning Group and was a postdoc at MIT CSAIL, collaborating with leaders like Tomás Lozano-Pérez and Leslie Kaelbling on scalable learning systems. His research blends robotics, computer vision, and language to enable agents that accumulate, adapt, and recombine modular knowledge over their lifetimes. Jorge has interned at FAIR, MSR, and Facebook AI working on mixture-of-experts, compositional reinforcement learning, and multidomain dialog problems, bringing industry-scale perspectives to academic work. He studied and taught across Venezuela, Italy, and the U.S., and his background in electronics engineering informs a practical, systems-minded approach to algorithm design. Outside core research, he focuses on making complex lifelong learning problems tractable through modular decomposition that enables reuse and transfer.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Summa Cum Laude, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Summa Cum Laude, Electronics Engineering at Universidad Simón BolívarComputer Science, Computer Science at Politecnico di MilanoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (8)
planning9
laravel8
robotics4
simulation3
robot-simulator3
airsim1
reinforcement-learning1
java1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Lifelong-ML/LPG-FTW
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
Lifelong-ML/Mendez2022ModularLifelongRL
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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