Klemen Kotar
CS PhD Student (AI) at Stanford University
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKlemen Kotar is a CS PhD student at Stanford with a decade of hands-on experience building embodied AI, computer vision, and robotics systems that learn continuously from the world. His work bridges rigorous research and engineering—spanning state estimation and RCNN-based object localization to reinforcement learning agents that actively control gaze and perception. Prior roles include a Predoctoral Young Investigator at AI2 and research positions at UW where he scaled parallel PyTorch training across GPUs and extended core parallelism primitives. He also led controls and real-time systems for UW Hyperloop and has industry internships at Tesla and Stanford, demonstrating an ability to move between fast-paced product engineering and long-horizon research. Based in Seattle, he combines deep systems skills with a focus on physical scene understanding and lifelong learning, often tackling the tooling and infrastructure needed to make research reproducible and performant.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of WashingtonEngineering, Engineering at Valley Christian High School
Github Skills (15)
reinforcement-learning9
computer-vision9
deep-learning8
python8
ai8
pytorch7
artificial-intelligence7
machine-learning7
scale4
neuroscience4
large-scale4
plotter3
drawing2
neural-network2
golang1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allenai/ViRB
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Visual Representation Learning Benchmark for Self-Supervised Models
Contributions:1037 commits, 17 pushes in 7 months
klemenkotar/optimus
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1048 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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