Murtaza Dalal
Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMurtaza Dalal is a Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building generalist robotic agents, currently leading reinforcement learning for manipulation at Tesla after completing a Robotics PhD at CMU under Ruslan Salakhutdinov. His work spans efficient real-world exploration, hierarchical skill learning, large-scale imitation, and integrating broad learning systems to enable versatile manipulation—skills honed through research roles at Apple, NVIDIA, and X. He has published at top venues (CoRL, ICLR, ICRA) and led projects that imitate task-and-motion planners with transformers and scale generalist training for robots. Based in San Jose, he blends deep research rigor with hands-on system-building for production robotics, and uniquely combines academic breadth with industry impact across robotics labs and moonshot teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Del Mar High SchoolRobotics PhD Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Robotics PhD Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
English, Gujarati, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (53)
webots10
robotics10
gazebosim10
hierarchical10
robot10
parameterized10
gazebo-simulator10
robotics-simulation9
reinforcement-learning9
simulator9
benchmark9
simulation9
manipulation9
simulation-framework9
modularity9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mihdalal/mihdalal.github.io
Nov 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
mihdalal/d4rl
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
A benchmark for offline reinforcement learning.
Contributions:1 PR, 94 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 6 months
offline-reinforcement-learningbenchmarkingreinforcement-learningbenchmarkreinforcement
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.