Paul Crook
Robotics Foundation Model Engineer
Japan
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Top SchoolPaul Crook is a Robotics Foundation Model Engineer and senior research scientist with deep expertise in agentic and multi-modal generative AI, spanning LLMs, VLMs and embodied Vision-Language-Action models. He has driven high-impact research and product work at Meta/Facebook and Microsoft, led the SIMMC challenge, authored numerous top-tier papers and filed 22+ patent applications while mentoring researchers. His PhD work on active perception and POMDP reinforcement learning for mobile robots laid the groundwork for today’s RL-driven agentic systems and dialogue managers. Now based in Japan and currently building foundation models for robotics at Telexistence, he combines academic rigor with production deployment experience across conversational assistants and situated multi-modal interaction. A Chartered Engineer and IEEE Senior Member, he brings a rare blend of long-term systems engineering (from power networks to robotics) and cutting-edge generative AI research.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghMaster of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Bath
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Github Skills (45)
datasets10
compression10
nlp10
pytorch9
machine-learning9
inference9
mixture-of-experts9
gpu9
deep-learning9
optimization9
python8
deepspeed8
data-parallelism8
digit8
assistants7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/FnCTOD
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Official code for the publication "Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling" https//arxiv.org/abs/2402.10466
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 months
skiingpacman/krippendorff
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Fast computation of the Krippendorff's alpha agreement measure in Python
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
computationpythonagreementmeasure
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