Rawal Khirodkar
Research Scientist at Meta
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRawal Khirodkar is a research scientist at Meta with 11 years of experience blending robotics, machine learning, and computer vision to advance realistic digital humans. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and progressed from doctoral research and internships at Meta and Amazon to a postdoc and now a research scientist role focused on bringing virtual humans to life. His background includes cross-disciplinary stints in quantitative research and software engineering, reflecting comfort with both experimental science and production-ready systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs deep academic rigor with industry-scale research, and his trajectory suggests a strong aptitude for translating novel algorithms into practical, scalable avatars. An early pattern of internships at industry leaders and a stint in global alpha research hint at an unusual mix of statistical, systems, and applied ML strengths behind his work.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (90)
deep-reinforcement-learning9
computer-vision9
feature-extraction9
simulator9
high-resolution9
cyclegan9
ros9
generative-adversarial-network9
high-resolution-net9
q-learning8
inverse-kinematics8
detectron8
synthetic-data8
prediction8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rawalkhirodkar/chatbot
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rawalkhirodkar/MIPNet
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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