Lars Ankile
PHD Student at Stanford University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLars Ankile is a PhD student in computer science at Stanford with eight years of experience building and researching machine learning and robotics systems, currently focused on long-horizon dexterous manipulation and diffusion-based policy representations. He holds an MS in Data Science from Harvard and has applied RL, IRL, and real-to-sim-to-real methods across academic labs at MIT CSAIL and Harvard, as well as applied research at Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics Lab. His work spans both theory and practice—publishing on user modeling and adversarial behavior measurement while shipping real-world robot finetuning methods and reinforcement learning algorithms. He brings a strong engineering toolkit from full-stack SaaS and data projects to production ML, with prior industry experience at BCG, McKinsey, and startups where he built automated analytics and procurement platforms. Notably, he blends global perspective and executional impact, from advising Zambian EV adoption to automating equity screening tools—demonstrating comfort moving between field deployment, policy research, and scalable software.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyStudiespesialiserende, Studiespesialiserende at AkademietVisiting Undergraduate Computer Science and Economics, Visiting Undergraduate Computer Science and Economics at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (104)
python10
pandas10
django9
dataframes9
api9
hyperparameter-tuning9
apollo-client9
manipulation9
keras9
react9
frame9
data-structures9
robotics-simulation9
data-science9
reinforcement-learning9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ankile/ankile.com
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Personal landing page
Contributions:22 PRs, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactnextjspersonal-landing-page
ankile/imitation-juicer
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Enabling robots to perform long-horizon dexterous tasks with imitation learning
Contributions:5 reviews, 46 PRs, 423 pushes in 1 year
diffusion-modelsimitation-learningrobotics
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